Among the forces attracted by the Jumo City Competition, the highest status is obviously the Holy See of Light and the Carl royal family, the two pillars of the kingdom!

It can be seen from the seat that these two sides sat side by side in the center of the first row of the VIP stands... The other nobles could only lean back and be behind them according to their titles.

In addition to these two behemoths, there are some special forces who are not nobles, but they also have a transcendent status. "Bander" is one of them.

"Magic Holy Land" Bandell.

Bandel is actually a city, but unlike most other cities, it is controlled by a certain family, and it does not even belong to any of the kingdom's east, west, south and north boundaries, because it is a floating city! Traveling randomly in various places, maybe it is still floating above Jumo City today, and tomorrow it will run above a desert oasis in the Western Regions, sprinkling a piece of shade.

And the reason for such a nickname is that Bandel gathered the most magicians in the Urenos continent.

The entire floating city did not use any runes from the Holy See, but was driven by complex magic circles. It itself was a huge laboratory! Wherever it floated, it used the natural environment to do experiments. After the collected data was digested by a large number of magicians, it was transformed into a continuous stream of knowledge and sent to the entire magical community.

It is said that since the completion of Bandar City, 60% of the newly born magic stars in the entire Karl Kingdom have come from there, and more than 40% of the advanced magicians have come from there, and even two sub-legacy-level great wizards have been born there!

Bandel City is now controlled by the "Nature Society", and its members are elite magicians from all over the mainland. It is an honor for any magician to be able to study in Bandel for a period of time.

If it weren't for the invitation letter in the latter, the nobles believed that the mysterious girl "Jane" would definitely not have rejected Bander's invitation. Even though she had rejected countless invitations before, no magician could refuse the olive branch of the magic holy land.

But there was no way. The second invitation letter was represented by Carl's royal family, given by Maritime Secretary Steve.

The Carl royal family also needs fresh blood and also needs to absorb more powerful people and geniuses for their own use.

There was a rule in previous Jumo City competitions, that is, the first place was either recruited by the Holy See or the Royal Carls, almost without exception! The top genius went to the top places not only because few other families could offer more abundant conditions than the two giants, but also because no one dared to compete with them.

As soon as the royal family's invitation was released, the nobles were not sure... After all, would that mysterious girl magician choose a magic holy land or join the royal family?

Countless eyes were turned to the cloaked girl.

Then people saw her reaching out a pale little hand from her cloak and taking the golden invitation from the Royal Guards.

"It's the royal family!"

"No wonder, the royal family also has a court mage group. Even if the conditions for learning magic are not as good as those of Bandel, it is not much worse..."

The nobles whispered, and some looked at Viscount Helen Tozel ​​with a gloating look on their faces.

Bandel's magician representative smiled indifferently and said nothing.

But everyone guessed Blanche’s idea wrong...

Bandel? That was a territory controlled by the "Natural Society", which was a group of loyal fans of Rose Valentine. She would never be able to study there! And after receiving the royal invitation, it was not because she wanted to abandon Viscount Helen and join the royal family, but because the person who wrote the invitation was Steve, the maritime minister...

In the arena at the bottom, the gray-haired girl raised her hat slightly for the first time and looked at the VIP stands high.

"Dad..." A smile appeared on the corner of Blanche's mouth, "Long time no see."

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That day, late at night.

The mysterious cloaked girl "Jane", took the invitation letter and finally arrived at a luxurious villa in the lord castle of Jumo City through layers of guards.

The silver-armored knight flag hanging from the window symbolizes that this is the residence represented by the Carl royal family.

"Jane Tozel? Welcome, come in and sit down." Steve's cheerful voice came from the room.

Blanche carefully lowered the brim of her hat and strode in.

"Think it through?" After the guest sat down, Steve took a sip of tea and looked approachable. "You can rest assured that the conditions I gave were almost the upper limit that the Carl royal family could give. I wouldn't hide it from you. Unless you can win the championship, this is already the highest treatment. Of course, if you win the championship, I will definitely write you another invitation in person."

"No... I didn't come for this." The girl shook her head.

"Why is that?"

"I heard you are a very interesting person, so I want to come and meet you and chat for a while, that's all." The cloaked girl said in a surprising way.

Steve was stunned for a while.

"I began to think you are also an interesting person." The middle-aged man suddenly smiled, "Then let's talk, what do you want to talk about?"

"I heard that you were also an outstanding magician when you were young." The cape girl thought for a while and said, "I want to ask you, what do you think of the element of nature? What is its relationship with magic?"

Steve looked at the cape girl in surprise: "Isn't this answer recognized? Magic is the mother of the natural element..."

"No, I don't want the accepted answer." The cape girl shook her head, "I don't want Ms. Rose's answer. I want your answer... Don't worry, I won't say it out, and you can also rest assured that I don't agree with the accepted answer."

Steve raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"Hahahaha!" He laughed happily after a moment, "You are so interesting... Then let's just discuss it, just talk nonsense!"

"Um."

"In my opinion, the natural elements are tools of magic." The middle-aged man lowered his voice. "Magic power cannot directly cause nature to produce magical phenomena such as water, fire, lightning, etc. It must be helped by natural elements, just like the hand cannot directly crush a stone, but holding a hammer can... In my opinion, the natural elements are this tool."

Under the cloak... the girl's gray pupils suddenly contracted.

tool?!

Although it is not as extreme as emperor magic, and directly treats natural elements as slaves, it is already a bit rebellious! At least the old scholars in the magical field will definitely not like this idea.

"Just just say it casually, don't take it seriously...haha." Steve immediately changed his words.

But Blanche already understood what he meant and felt much more relaxed.

Next, the two of them talked about many other things in a wild way, and they were surprisingly co-starred! The conversation continued along the pleasant atmosphere... until the gray-haired girl said this:

"I'll ask again, did you marry Master Flinda because you used her as a tool to seize the position of Maritime Minister? As far as I know, Maritime Minister has always been a member of the Hesel family, and after you married into the Hesel family, you seemed to have changed your surname to Hesel..."

"What did you say?!" Steve's expression changed, and the smile disappeared without a trace on his face. Instead, he stood up suddenly and pointed at the cloaked girl angrily and said, "Where did you hear such words... Ah, I forgot that you are also a nobleman... Okay, you actually insulted me like this..." He smiled angrily: "Get out immediately, or I'll call the guard."

"No, I'll leave now." The cloaked girl actually had a smile in her voice, "Don't be angry, I'm really happy about the conversation tonight. I thought I didn't ask in the last sentence."

She said and left immediately.

Only Steve was left standing in the middle of the room, his undulating chest could not calm down for a long time.
Chapter completed!