Volume 6 Chapter 63 - Expired patents (1/2)

Just last week, Great Magician Ferguson came to the Stantine Duchy on behalf of the Magicians Guild and met Xu Yi.

This time, Great Magician Ferguson brought the Magicians Guild’s final decision.

According to the Magicians Guild headquarter’s council, they decided that they would support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s idea of letting low grade magicians gain magic machine foundational knowledge.

The Magicians Guild headquarters stated that in the name of the Magicians Guild of the Sines Continent, all magicians would formally recognize the existence of the magic machine industry.

After receiving the official approval of the Magicians Guild headquarters, it meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s magic machine industry was officially recognized by the Magicians Guild, being clearly divided from all the other industries on the continent.

The magicians of the continent did look down on the merchants, but when it came to making a living, they had to interact with the merchants.

Now that the Magicians Guild headquarters had specially raised the magic machine industry and recognized it, it gave the magicians another reason to officially step into the magic machine industry.

For Xu Yi, this was already enough.

When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce met problems recruiting magicians, it was because of the problem of reputation.

For those High Grade Magicians, joining a company would be considered lowering their status. To enter a company and just hold the position of researcher was even harder to accept.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce being able to recruit so many magicians now, other than giving many good benefits, the most important reason was the advertisement from Arch Magus Camilla.

However, now that the magic machine industry was officially recognized by the Magicians Guild and the Magicians Guild listed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as one of their cooperating companies, there was no longer a mental barrier for magicians to join the magic machine industry.

As for the magic machine industry academy the Frestech Chamber of Commerce opened, it was a blessing for low grade magicians.

Because according to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they didn’t need to pay school fees to enrol and after graduating, there was a big chance of joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and getting a good job.

For most of these magicians that had bad financial situations who not only could barely support their magic research, this was like a pie that fell from the sky.

And for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Magicians Guild’s support not only allowed them to recruit even more magicians, it also allowed their magic machine industry academy to recruit even more talented people. This was beneficial for both the current and future Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

So in the beginning, his talks with Great Magician Ferguson were good. Xu Yi also seized this chance to make a new proposal to Great Magician Ferguson.

Xu Yi hoped that the Magicians Guild headquarters would allow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to be the title sponsors of the Lampuri Kingdom’s yearly Magicians Guild examination. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could even pay a sponsor fee of a hundred thousand gold coins a year to the Lampuri Kingdom’s Magicians Guild.

Although Great Magician Ferguson was confused by the terms Xu Yi proposed, he easily understood what it meant with Xu Yi’s explanation.

To Great Magician Ferguson, this was without a doubt a good thing.

Because the Magicians Guilds of the various countries had no method of income. The funds that they had were special funds allocated from the Magicians Guild and their respective countries.

The Lampuri Kingdom had been a rather weak country and didn’t have much money, so the Lampuri Kingdom’s Magicians Guild always had little funding.

According to what Great Magician Ferguson could remember from the annual report from the Lampuri Kingdom’s Magicians Guild, they stated that they had very little funds because the funds allocated from the Lampuri Kingdom each year was only fifty thousand gold coins.

Even if the Magicians Guild gave them another thirty thousand gold coins a year, the Lampuri Kingdom’s Magicians Guild’s funding each year was only around eighty thousand gold coins.

With this little funding, it was even hard to maintain the basic functions of the Lampuri Kingdom’s Magicians Guild. Not to mention organizing the various events, which made it much harder for them.

Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to support the Lampuri Kingdom’s Magicians Guild with one hundred thousand gold coins a year, this would greatly improve their financial situation, which was without a doubt a good thing.

But Great Magician Ferguson didn’t immediately agree.

First, this was related to the Lampuri Kingdom’s Magicians Guild, so he couldn’t decide this alone. Second, a company being the “title sponsor” of a country’s Magicians Guild examination, this really was too novel of a term. Of course it had to be properly discussed before it could be passed.

Of course, Great Magician Ferguson praised Xu Yi’s suggestion. He called Xu Yi a chairman who really cared about magicians and was very willing to consider his fellow magicians. The Magicians Guild headquarters deciding to list the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a cooperating company really was a good choice…..

However, after Xu Yi raised this suggestion, the atmosphere suddenly changed.

The reason was because of the request Great Magician Ferguson brought on behalf of the Magicians Guild headquarters.

Last time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had reached a deal with the Magicians Guild headquarters. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would give them a piece of technology related to the magic machine industry each year, which would be exchanged for the support of the Magicians Guild.

This wasn’t considered much since Xu Yi was clear that the Magicians Guild also wanted to earn money from the magic machine industry which wasn’t surprising.