Volume 5 Chapter 121 - Shadow in his heart (1/2)

Volume 5 Chapter 121 Shadow in his heart

Xu Yi had plenty of ideas, but reality gave him nothing.

After laying down the magic signal tower, according to his plan, the first step was laying down coverage in Xu Yi’s personal territory. This was considered promoting this technology while also being considered an experiment, testing the various aspects of this technology.

When they reached a certain extent, they would then erect magic signal towers all over the Stantine Duchy, integrating the entire duchy into the magic network that Xu Yi dreamed of.

However, while he didn’t encounter any hindrances on the first step, there was a large hindrance when he wanted to take the second step.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had contacted the noble who was closest to Xu Yi’s territory, planning on installing magic signal towers in his territory and expanding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s magic network.

But when they talked to that lord, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s proposal had been firmly rejected by that lord.

This made Xu Yi very surprised.

Because this lord’s territory was close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he already had a deep cooperation with them and had gained many benefits from this cooperation.

Before this, he didn’t reject any of the requests of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, always following them. But this time, he had taken a very strong stance and didn’t leave any room for further discussions. It meant that it was impossible for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to install a magic signal tower in his personal territory.

His strong response was surprising to everyone in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Xu Yi had personally met with the lord on this matter and explained to him how much this would increase the people’s standard of living, but he still didn’t seem to relent at all.

In the end, because of his strangely firm stance, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave up on using his territory as the first target to expand. They turned to discuss with another lord who bordered Xu Yi’s territory.

However, the other lord had the same determined stance as the lord from before. He also stated that he wouldn’t allow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to build any magic signal towers on his territory no matter what.

If it was just a single lord that had this kind of change in attitude, it could be considered some special consideration on his personal part, but for two lords to have this strange attitude at once, Xu Yi had no choice but to pay attention to this.

When he had his subordinates contact another lord, although they had been firmly rejected just like before, Xu Yi finally understood that this hindrance wasn’t just coincidental.

Facts proved Xu Yi’s inference.

Akali’s small research team worked with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s public relations staff in the Stantine Duchy to contact over ten nobles to cooperate, but they had all rejected them without any exception.

This strange circumstance would make anyone feel that something was off.

Why would the lord of the Stantine Duchy take the risk to offend the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and oppose such a thing that had no harm to them? Why would the oppose something that could improve the quality of lives for the citizens that lived in their territory?

Xu Yi was very confused about this. Even if they gave all kinds of strange reasons, they were all excuses in the end and not a single one told the truth.

The matter of building magic signal towers, because they were being built in the private territories of the lords, they had to have the lords work with them to build it properly.

Now that they all didn’t want to work with them, Xu Yi couldn’t do anything right now.

But compared to the strange rejection about the magic signal tower, Xu Yi cared about the real reason behind why the lords had rejected him.

When he contacted the congress before to get a new piece of territory, he could only give up after more than half of them rejected this. Xu Yi now found that he, or perhaps the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s influence was much greater than he had thought.

For the control of the Stantine Duchy, these two things both proved without doubt that there was no control of the Stantine Duchy at all.

This made Xu Yi a bit disappointed.

He thought that with the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce greatly improving the quality of living for the Stantine Duchy citizens, as well as giving everyone benefits, everyone would approve of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and would support all their actions.

But the brutal fact had told him that he had taken this too much for granted.

“Kid, aren’t you thirty five years old? Why are you still as naive as a child?” Arch Magus Camilla looked at Xu Yi with knitted brows before shaking his head, “Just kindness will make people thank you, but you have to understand that gratitude is only gratitude and obedience is a completely different matter. Others might agree to some things because of gratitude, but if it goes against their own interests, of course they would choose to protect their own interests. How could they blindly obey you?”

“But…..While wanting territory would affect their benefits, so it’s normal for them to disagree, but how would constructing magic signal towers affect them? Why would they firmly oppose this?” Xu Yi was confused.

“Kid, you’re not willing to study magic when you have nothing else, now do you know what the problem is?” Arch Magus Camilla gave a soft snort.