Chapter 619: People with the same interest, are bound to have a conflict with each other (1/2)

Author: M_W Cancer

Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

”Hmph!” Cassandra and the others coldly harrumph, as if to confirm that what Ethan had said was indeed correct.

Seeing their response, Ethan frown, indicating his disapproval of Cassandra and the other's action. Today's ball was already regarded by everyone as really important, not because it would allow them to get to know the participants that were qualified to participate in the Emerald Elven Battle Competition, but rather because of the meeting that uses the ball as the disguise.

This meeting concerns not only the interest of the Emerald Tree Kingdom but also the interest of the Mischievous Lion Guild as well.

That was why Leo had decided to bring all the Executives of the Mischievous Lion Guild to participate in this meeting.

Yet, despite such a fact, Cassandra and the others had actually still tried to prevent Leo from attending the meeting?

Does the interest of the Mischievous Lion Guild not matter to them?

It wasn't only Ethan who thought this way, Elaine and the others also felt the same as they believed that what Cassandra and the others had done to Leo was just too much.

However, just like all the previous times, they could easily guess already the exact reason why they have decided to beat up Leo; he had definitely done something that causes all of them to feel like beating him up... No, rather, to literally beat him up.

Noticing Ethan and the other's obvious meaning behind the looks on their faces, Cassandra and the others could only heave a sigh of resignation before quickly walking inside the carriage and fixing Leo's appearance. In their minds, they know that; since they have caused the problem, then they should be the ones to fix the problem as well.

With six people, on top of that, all of them being women as well, fixing Leo's appearance only took a little less than five minutes for everything to be finished. The final result was Leo becoming a hundred times more handsome and dashing compared to when he was the one who personally fixed his appearance.

Everyone's mood instantly turned better with such a result.

Some of them can't even help thinking that maybe Cassandra and the others had beat up Leo in purpose so as to achieve such a result instead. After all, every woman wants their men to be the best, right?

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After tens of minutes of walking, Leo and the others finally entered the castle's ballroom.

Similar to the decorations along the way to the Evergreen royal family's castle, the ballroom was perfectly decorated to fit the 'Fiery Inferno' theme of tonight's ball.

Guests from the different places around the Emerald Tree Kingdom were likewise wearing various kinds of suits and dresses fitting the theme 'Fiery Inferno'. Gathered together around the ballroom, they were either talking with each other about various random topics, dancing with people they are interested, and most importantly, sizing up one another.

The arrival of Leo and the others from the Mischievous Lion Guild immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the ballroom, causing the atmosphere of the entire place to turn quiet for a brief moment before quickly returning back to normal once again.

Such an action, no matter how subtle the changes were, was still unable to escape from Leo and the other's attention. Though they still choose to completely ignore them since they have long already expected such a reaction from everyone. After all, they were once in third place in the Emerald Event, not to mention the chaos that they have caused these past two days resulting in tens of participants who used to be in the top 100 rankings of the Emerald Event getting eliminated because of them exchanging 5 million or so worth of points. Rather, what attracted their interest was the clear formation of different alliances between all the people inside the ballroom... No, to be more precise, between all the participants that were qualified to participate in the Emerald Elven Battle Competition.

All the Nobles were still acting normal with them doing their usual and common socializing activities, such as going from one people to another, offering them a toast and starting a conversation that would end as quickly as they came, and inviting them to visit their places to further build-up their relationship.

But unlike the Nobles, the participants stayed in one place only, not literally on a single spot, but rather on a limited amount of space. They can still move around from places and even conversing with other participants, but their scope was within a strict range of activities.

They could even notice how each of the alliances view the participants of the other alliances in an antagonistic sort of way, such as taunting them, threatening them, or suppressing them.

The locations where they could gather together with none of that are probably only the center where people could be seen dancing and outside the castle's ballroom.