Volume 7 Chapter 16 - Era Of Open Sea Exploration (1/2)

Hearing this question, Xu Yi’s smile disappeared. After thinking for a bit, he replied, “It’s already been basically determined. Elder Illusia, have you taken care of choosing the people from your side?”

“Un, I’ve already picked a small team of ten people. They will set out with you when the time comes, I hope that you can make arrangements for them.”

“That’s easy, bring them over and I’ll take them to meet Narvil. Narvil is the commander in chief of this sea exploration, so he will take care of everything.”

“Alright.” Elder Illusia gave a nod before saying to Xu Yi with a smile, “Chairman Xu, our Night Song Tribe has received your help over all these years and we can’t repay you for everything, so it really is a bit embarrassing.”

Xu Yi was surprised before his eyes opened wide in disbelief. He looked at elder Illusia and then he carefully looked over her a few more times.

Elder Illusia felt weird being looked at like this by him and couldn’t help asking, “Chairman Xu, did I say something wrong?”

“No……It’s not wrong……Only……” Xu Yi’s expression became very strange, “Elder Illusia, this is only standard pleasantries among us humans, but when you say it, I really feel that it is a bit strange……”

“Pleasantries?” Elder Illusia shook her head, “This isn’t just pleasantries, but words that come from the bottom of my heart. Our elf race advocates balance and nature, so if we keep receiving someone’s kindness without being able to repay it, it will make me feel very awkward.”

Xu Yi was helpless as he put his hand to his face before waving his hand, “Alright, elder Illusia, it’s better if you’re not this serious. I have discussed this with you a long time ago, I chose to help your Night Song Tribe to integrate the elves into the magic machine industry. After all these years, you have developed so well and have become an irreplaceable part of the magic machine industry. To me, this is already enough. As for any other repayment…..do you think I’m lacking anything?”

Elder Illusia tilted her head to think before helplessly shaking it, “You don’t lack the things that we have, which is the main question of how we can’t repay you.”

“Alright, let’s not talk about this.” Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, deciding to end this topic.

He was clear on the stubborn nature of the elves and if he really kept discussing this with elder Illusia, she might really have some kind of idea.

“If we really need to talk about it, I’m actually curious why you’re insisting on sending these elves to participate in the open sea exploration trip this time.” Xu Yi thought about it and said, “This is our company’s first exploration trip and there are many unknown dangers. If we send people rashly, they might be lost.”

This was indeed the question that Xu Yi had been pondering during this time.

After learning that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was planning on sending out a deep sea exploration fleet, not only elder Illusia, but even elder Lisanya and elder Undine had said that they wanted to send people from the Moon Shadow Tribe and the Azshara Tribe respectively.

Xu Yi was very curious about this. He didn’t know why these three elf tribes were this passionate about the deep sea exploration.

If it was the halfling Lumi who was so excited that she couldn’t sleep for several days after hearing about Xu Yi deciding to organize this deep sea exploration fleet, that made sense since she had always been hoping to find her clansmen who were rumoured to have gone to another continent.

But the elves weren\\\'t a race that had left the Sines Continent, so why were they so passionate?”

“We just want to verify something.” Elder Illusia revealed a smile as she gave this vague answer, clearly not wanting to explain this further.

Xu Yi knitted his brows. He knew that if elder Illusia wasn’t willing to talk about this, he wouldn’t get an answer no matter how he asked, so he just gave up.

Anyway, the open sea exploration fleet had five large transport Magic Ships with fifteen guard ships, so having several dozen extra elves wouldn’t affect anything.

Compared to this, Xu Yi placed great importance on the open sea exploration trip itself.

There were many rumours on the Sines Continent and Xu Yi was certain that the planet underneath his feet wouldn’t only have a single continent, there should be other continents out there.

If he could find these continents, it would further develop Xu Yi’s understanding of this world.

Other than satisfying his demand for exploring, the more meaningful thing was more lands meant more resources, as well as more population that he could pull into his magic machine industry.

Building a complete magic machine industry didn’t just take time, it also took a lot of manpower.

If he could get more people involved, it would naturally develop even faster.

Other than that, considering it from a more realistic perspective, the Sines Continent was more or less stable and the land had been taken by the various countries, so the resources were being controlled by them.

Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had relied on their advantageous position in the magic machine industry to build good cooperation relationships with most of these countries, enabling them to gain large amounts of resources to support their own development.

If they couldn’t control these resources, they weren’t reliable in the end.

Although Xu Yi could do what Seveni had suggested before, constantly declaring war to get more resources and land for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, while the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was strong enough that no country wanted to attack them, it wasn’t enough for them to attack other countries.