Chapter 289, Jialan Gathering (Part 1)

The sky castle with howling winds, the huge snow-covered city walls, and the towering towers.

In the corridors of the castle, there are figures of Garland Witches and female apprentices everywhere. They are wearing fancy clothes, long skirts, and all kinds of gorgeous jewelry, moving in the corridors.

This morning, a general assembly has just begun, and the female spellcasters voted to strengthen the witches of the Kingdom of Nord, the Empire of Ostland, the Land of Hawk, the County of Glamorgan in Brittany, and the Kingdom of Kislev. Dispatch quantity.

The Garland Council has been infiltrating the power of secular nobles for a long time. In the wealthy south of the empire, it is dominated by the Imperial Academy of Wizardry, and the nobles are willing to hire wizards from the Royal Academy of Wizardry.

But in the north of the empire, things were different.

In the north of the empire, the power of the southern sects is even weaker. People prefer to fight in the name of the white wolf war god Urik and the god of nature Tal, rather than the name of Charlemagne that the south likes. The royal wizards of Brunswick were even more mistrustful.

The confrontation between the northern sect and the southern sect began in the era of the Three Emperors, and the empire had three emperors since then. He had no prestige, so the Elector Wollrich of White Wolf City proclaimed himself emperor under the instigation of the Pope of the White Wolf Church "Ulrich the Great", known as the "Wolf Emperor", and declared that the southern sect was heresy.

The southern sect was very angry about this. They chose to support the elector Sigismund of Reikland as emperor, known as "Emperor Reik", and declared the northern sect as heresy.

The empire has officially entered the "Era of Three Emperors". Endless civil wars engulfed the entire empire. It wasn't until the rise of the Von Carstein family of vampires in Sylvania that the three emperors of n chose to form an alliance to face the threat of vampires together. .

Then two hundred years later, the army of Chaos went south. At that time, Emperor Rick died in battle, and the capital of the empire fell. A rural noble from Nur called on all the people of the empire to unite. His inspiring speech and powerful strength , the devout faith unites all the remnants of the empire in the area where the southern sect is located.

After Ludwig unified the power of the southern sects of the empire, he chose to go north to seek the support of White Wolf City. The Wolf Emperor at that time refused to form an alliance with Ludwig, and the Pope of the White Wolf Church declared that Ludwig was a heretic.

Seeing this, Ludwig asked to enter the White Wolf Temple, and he asked to directly accept the test of the White Wolf Holy Flame.

Pope "Ulrich the Great" could not refuse Ludwig's request, so everyone watched Ludwig step into the holy flame, and they laughed, waiting to see the country bumpkin burn to death by the white wolf holy flame.

However,

A miracle happened, the holy fire of the white wolf avoided Ludwig, and the country bumpkin from Nuer entered the holy fire. When he came out, he had already been personally blessed by the white wolf Urik.

The White Wolf Pope had to recognize Ludwig's authority. He bp announced that Ludwig was blessed by Urik. The Wolf Emperor secretly took off the crown and used the elector to call himself and agreed with Luther. Vichy formed an alliance, and the Knights of the White Wolf and the army in the north of the empire have since obeyed Ludwig's orders.

There is no doubt that the Garland Council has a great influence in the northern part of the empire. The Speaker Margarita is related to the savior Ludwig. Their influence is particularly large in the Nord Kingdom and Kislev, of which Kisler Her husband's queen claimed to be Tsar Caroline, and she was even one of the elders of the Garland Council. Edbrand Ludenhof, Elector of the Hawke Land, and Harald Frank, King of Nord, also expressed respect for their female courtiers from Garland. Do what you say.

And now, a new witch star is rising. This witch named Veronica Bernadotte has just turned 30 this year, but she has accomplished many achievements that witches could never achieve in their lifetime. A few days ago, it was officially announced that the advancement was a legendary high-level, and at the same time, it also had a luxurious wizard tower of its own.

Obviously, if it wasn't for the help of Ryan Machado, Earl of Glamorgan, the champion of the Fairy of the Lake, Veronica wouldn't be able to make it this far.

At least that's what Teresa Trovik thinks.

The thirty-two-year-old female sorceress also participated in the Gloria University today. This kind of university always likes to open in the middle of winter, because the freezing environment and extremely high altitude of Sky Dome can effectively suppress female spellcasters in the middle of winter. The violent magic element in their bodies made them talk calmly.

Teresa is wearing a black down fur coat, wide-leg pants and high-heeled boots that she likes today. Her long black hair with shimmering light is casually draped over her shoulders to her waist, and a crocodile belt It is inlaid with rubies, and the pearl necklace on the chest is a New Year's gift from Ryan.

There was some distress on Leng Yan's face, she looked at the small note in her hand, holding a quill in her small hand wearing white lace gloves, a little undecided.

Do you want to choose to vote for Veronica and support her to enter the Garland Presbyterian Church?

From a personal point of view, Teresa feels very disgusted with Veronica. If it weren't for her, she might have already established a relationship with Ryan. Since the beginning of contact, Veronica, a woman, has made things difficult for her. It's a lot of proactive provocations.

If it was Teresa a few years ago, she would definitely vote against it without hesitation, and she would even find her mother to find a way to prevent Veronica from entering the Presbyterian Church.

Just because I don't like it.

But that was me a few years ago. Since I set off from Winter City and traveled in Nord with Ryan for several weeks, the sorceress has worked hard to grow up. Going to Ryan's territory is a kind of experience for her The blow was also a temper for her. Now Theresa is more willing to use her brain to think about problems.

Teresa shook her head slightly at last, and the sorceress picked up the quill.

"Yes."

Veronica has successfully entered the Presbyterian Church, and she will establish a branch in Britannia as a special elder. In the future, the Garland Council will devote more resources to her.

After the big event was over, it was noon, and the witches dispersed. The next meeting will start in three days. The Jialan witches have accumulated a lot of things, and they need to vote one by one.

The door opened, and hundreds of Garland congresswomen came out of the venue, Yingying Yanyan, the sound of their heels hitting the ground was endless.

"Our speaker has won another small victory." The mature and beautiful Aurora held Teresa's arm with one hand, and the sanctuary witch stood up straight, like a straight pine tree: "But this is not It doesn't matter, what matters is that, my daughter, you will vote for it, and I am very happy."

"Lian is a piece of cake, and now this piece of cake has become too big to be eaten by one person." Teresa shook her head lightly: "Veronica has already cut a big piece, now it's my turn to wrap it up For the rest, I have to support Veronica on this one."

Aurora closed her eyes and nodded: "You are right, my daughter, you have really grown up."

"I'm going to have dinner with Speaker Margarita and Her Majesty Caroline tonight. Recently, the northern barbarians on the Linsk River and the troll kingdom on the northern border of Kislev are not peaceful." Aurora said in a low voice: "You Want to be together?"

"I..." Teresa thought for a while, she shook her head: "No, it doesn't make sense for me to go."

Aurora was a little surprised, her daughter used to like to follow her very much.

"Well, arrange the time yourself." Aurora didn't say anything more. It's not that the sanctuary witch didn't persuade her daughter. Ryan was already engaged to a duke's daughter, and Veronica was by her side, leaving it to Trey. Sha didn't have much space, but seeing Teresa's firm attitude and Ryan's vision, Aurora decided to continue to support her daughter.

This character is really like me.

Leaving her mother's room, Teresa returned to her own room. The left side of the luxurious sorceress room was filled with various magic scrolls and books, and there was also a big mirror. On the right side were several large wardrobes filled with Filled with tons of clothes and shoes, jewelry.

There is a soft bed in the middle of the room, which is where Teresa has come to rest for a while. There are a few thick books on the bedside, which are the High Gothic textbooks that Ryan gave her. At the same time, there are The epic poem given by Morgiana was written in High Gothic language. Recently, sorceresses are learning High Gothic language painfully. She feels that when she closes her eyes, a picture of the Holy Grail Knight fighting with the Holy Grail will immediately appear in front of her eyes.

The sorceress felt better about having to put Ryan's face into those of the Grail Knights.

"!" There is a witch apprentice in the room, named Emma. She is a witch apprentice with high ice talent among the new witch apprentices of the Garland Council this year. Aurora used many means to get her into the bag. .

"Emma, ​​you go out first, I want to take a rest."

"yes."

After the apprentice witch left, Teresa sighed softly. The sorceress took a shower, changed into a crisp white nightgown, let the pearl necklace gifted by Ryan hang on her plump chest, and then leaned quietly on the bed head.

The soft mattress and feather pillow made Teresa feel a little bit comfortable, but the snow was still whistling outside the window. The sorceress tried to take a few glances at the high Gothic textbook, but the feeling of exhaustion that hit her subconsciously Putting down the book, the glamorous sorceress sighed softly. The matter of Veronica was actually secondary. After Ryan became the earl, the two witches had reached a consensus.

Teresa's real headache is the construction of her wizard tower, which needs to raise 20,000 gold crowns.

Veronica's wizard tower cost about 28,000 gold crowns to complete the construction. If she hadn't been lucky enough to get an astonishing income with Ryan after participating in the Extermination of the Aesthetic Society in Marienburg, Ryan would be a passionate person , her wizard tower is not so easy to build.

And Teresa couldn't find the money. She didn't have the good luck of Veronica. First, it happened that the Grand Duke of Marienburg was an acquaintance of Ryan, and then she happened to meet the Society of Extermination of Beauty, and then happened to meet someone like Ryan. A good man who won't steal Veronica's income.

This is a lot of money, which is enough to make any man turn his face against him.

Many times Teresa wondered where there were so many coincidences in the world, but this happened.

It is also inconvenient for her to discuss this matter with her mother. She knows something about the financial sorceress at home. Aurora's promise to give out eight thousand gold dinars and eight thousand gold crowns is already a lot of money, Trey Sha knew she couldn't ask her mother for more.

She has to figure it out on her own.

Teresa has thought of some ways these days, including selling her own magic scrolls, including using her contribution value in the council to exchange for funds, and the council has also lent some to her, but until now she still has a shortfall of at least 6,000 kroner To fill.

What to do with the money?

First of all, the easiest thing is to borrow money from some chambers or lords of the empire or Marienburg in the name of her mother. It should not be difficult to raise six thousand gold crowns.

Still the same sentence, she can't and doesn't want to let her mother waste energy on her own affairs. After a series of things, the sorceress understands that only her own excellence can be worthy of Ryan, and she blindly uses her mother's strength to practice The point is to lower his own evaluation in Ryan's mind.

Just like when the two started traveling in Nord, Ryan would choose to accommodate her and tolerate her not because he liked her so much, but purely because of her mother's face. The territory of Autergne takes care of a lot, so Ryan is naturally not good at treating Teresa too badly.

So Teresa was left with two choices, borrowing in her own name, borrowing from the Witch of Jialan, or finding a way to borrow from a large chamber of commerce.

Teresa decided to rest for a while before looking for someone.

At the same time, in Sky Dome Castle, in the Falcon Tower.

The newly promoted Elder Jialan, Veronica, was sitting in front of the fireplace. At the same time, there were two other witches in the room talking to her.

With long brown hair, wearing a lake-green Nord court gown dress, with an oval face and small eyes, the Garland councilor is named Noel. She is a legendary witch with a life department and has a quarter of an elf. lineage.

Another congresswoman with short black hair with drop ears, wearing a black wizard's robe, high-heeled boots and gray s is talking to Veronica. She looks very beautiful, but the corners of her eyes are a little dark and her clothes are rough Well, many parts of the robe have frayed edges, and the cuffs are also frayed, she doesn't care too much.

The female councilor is Phyllis, a legendary witch of the death department and the shadow department. Her husband just died in the counter-insurgency campaign in the Nord Kingdom. This major blow cannot break her down, but it is enough Let her down for a while.

These two are Veronica's few friends in the Garland Council who can talk.

Veronica is wearing a brown mink fur trench coat today, with a scented coffee satin dress inside. Her long black-brown hair hangs over her shoulders. The red agate earrings from the Wood Elf and the platinum necklace from Ryan are shining, The slender and straight black silk is raised high, and a pair of small silk feet are wearing black suede high heels. Her sweet face still looks like a girl in her twenties, but after many years of experience, Veronica's temperament is even more aloof.

"Phyllis, I'm very sorry about what happened this time." In her guest room, Veronica's posture was relatively relaxed, and she whispered: "Cohen is a good person, but he is just unlucky."

"Hey" Phyllis didn't say anything more, her eyes were on the burning fire: "Stop talking about this, Veronica, today is your good day, congratulations."

"Yes, Veronica, congratulations." Noel also said, her long brown hair was tied into a few long braids and hung down, and the witch of the life department said enviously: "Between us, there is still You are the most successful."

"I just won the bet." Veronica shook her head modestly: "If you gain something, you will lose it. I was lucky to meet Ryan."

Both Noel and Phyllis were a little embarrassed. They also participated in persuading Veronica at the beginning. Now it seems that Veronica's choice was right, but they were the ones who were wrong.

This is decisiveness, and envy cannot be envied. Who would have known that the young knight-errant in his early twenties, the taciturn Ryan would become the champion of the fairies in the lake and be promoted to earl in less than ten years? Woolen cloth?

"Mentor!" At this time, Veronica's apprentice Catherine knocked on the door suddenly: "Mentor, someone is looking for you."

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