Volume 6 Chapter 149 - Strict Magic Machine Industry Grade (1/2)

If it was said that before completely breaking all pretenses with the Magicians Guild, Xu Yi hadn’t considered the threat of Arch Magi, that would definitely be impossible.

But after the threat came from Arch Magus Camilla, it couldn’t be more real and he couldn’t help becoming nervous.

But he was only worried for a second before calming down.

He had already thought it through. If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to dominate the development of the magic machine industry on the continent, establishing his ideal magic machine industry, he would have to face the threat of the Arch Magi sooner or later.

The Arch Magi are very special existences on the Sines Continent and until now, including Arch Magus Camilla, there were only twenty seven of them.

Each one of these twenty seven Arch Magi were very important people. Any single move from them could create a large tremor in the magicians circle, so it could be said that they represented the authority of the magicians.

However to Xu Yi, the authority of the Arch Magi was just based on their power, or rather their destructive abilities, which wasn’t something that could be praised.

Because to Xu Yi, magic was nothing more than a tool. Using magic to develop magic machines and then using them to improve the lives of people, instead of using destructive magic to participate in wars, it was much more meaningful.

Xu Yi had always downplayed the power of magic so that people would shift from being in awe of magic to focusing on the utility of magic.

This time he had taken a stance against the Magicians Guild to separate the Low Grade Magicians who made up 90% of all magicians on the continent from the Magicians Guild. Then he would find some appropriate work for these Low Grade Magicians, while also allowing him to redefine the definition of magic in their minds.

If the Low Grade Magicians with the highest population accepted the magic machines, concentrating on these magic machines with real life applications, then he could change the direction most magicians used magic for and develop the magic machine industry.

But if he really wanted to completely change everyone’s understanding of magic, even reaching the higher grade magicians, the Great Magicians, and even the Arch Magi, Xu Yi had to face this problem.

If even a single Arch Magus approved of the magic machine industry and joined it, it would be much stronger than convincing a ten thousand Low Grade Magicians.

Arch Magus Camilla was the only Arch Magus that approved of the magic machine industry right now, but because of his relationship with Xu Yi, he wasn’t that convincing.

So Xu Yi had always been trying to convince other Arch Magi through other methods.

If the Magicians Guild really convinced an Arch Magus to deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would be dangerous for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, while also being a great chance for them.

As for how the results would be, that would depend on Xu Yi.

It was a good thing that an Arch Magus wasn’t a normal person, so unless the Magicians Guild was forced to use their final trump card, they wouldn’t use it. Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had Arch Magus Camilla, which created scruples for the Magicians Guild.

So even if Arch Magus Camilla was worried about this, in reality after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce tore off all face with the Magicians Guild, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn’t encounter a worst case scenario and wasn’t immediately attacked by an Arch Magus.

The Magicians Guild only attacked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with statements and didn’t make any moves.

On the surface, it seemed quite ordinary and there were no events at all.

Of course, this calm was only for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other countries of the Sines Continent weren’t calm at all.

After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that they would transfer parts of the military magic machine technology, many other countries on the continent started moving.

The first batch of thirty five countries that signed the contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce used only a year to get high marks.

The best among them was the Winnes Duchy which had reached the second stage of cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce recognized their magic machine industry as reaching grade two, so according to the contract, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would transfer the military magic machine technology for the basic Magic Repeating Crossbow and the small Magic Trebuchet.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Winnes Duchy pooled funds to create a military magic machine factory in the Winnes Duchy. They also built a steel mill that could produce over eight hundred thousand tons of products a year, providing steel material for these military magic machines.