Chapter 424 (1/2)
”Do you know what that drawing is?”
It was a sentence that Sean muttered to herself, but she didn't expect that paqiuli next to her had such sharp ears that she listened to what Sean said so quietly.
Sean glanced at pachuli and knew that the woman was a madman with a nickname from the Helson Institute. Sean didn't dare to underestimate the woman, so he had to answer, ”maybe... There's a guess.”
”Guess?” Pachuli's eyebrows wrinkled slightly. ”You'd better not say such irresponsible words casually.”
Paqiuli's tone was a little blunt, which obviously had an absolute gap with the image she had shown before. However, Sean understands this. Scholars from the temple of wisdom, as long as they are not those who want to mix names, but really talented and practical people, will hate the ambiguous conjecture attitude as long as they stay for a long time. After all, they are even a group of wise people who pursue truth and truth.
”Before I saw the drawing, I was really just guessing.” Sean replied calmly, not impatient with Patricia's attitude at all.
”So what is the basis of your conjecture?” However, paqiuli still pursued.
Sean glanced at pachuli. It was really hard for him to answer this question.
It can't be said that his guess is based on a rumor he once saw in the forum? Let alone whether Patricia would believe such words, but he felt that such words were very insincere. Maybe this pachuli won't say anything now, but as a madman and a woman from the hellson Institute, who knows if she will be careful to turn around and design a pile of traps to harm herself.
You know, she had already considered the conspiracy of framing and assassination before, and the former had been implemented.
So at this moment, Sean would rather give pachuli an impression of his arrogance than give her an excuse.
After all, the person who can be favored by another scholar of the hellson Institute, known as the interpreter of the legal array, always has some arrogant qualifications.
Sure enough, after seeing that Sean didn't answer, Patricia looked away. Although she didn't look very happy on her face, she was at least not hostile: ”like Conan, she always said there was only one truth, and before she found the truth, she looked like she wouldn't say even if she was smoked to death.”
Sean was a little embarrassed, but at least he fooled him in this regard.
At this moment, Sean's mood to see the mysterious drawing is probably stronger than those who came for it.
Fortunately, the road didn't seem long. After entering the second floor of a building that Sean didn't visit before, soma, who led the way in front, finally opened a door.
This is a very traditional meeting room.
Without too luxurious and exaggerated decoration, the conference room is a long table, with a total of ten people sitting around on both sides, head and tail. In addition, there are about 20 chairs near the wall in the conference room. These seats should be for the secretarial roles to take notes. After that, there will be no other furnishings in the whole room.
At this time, many people were sitting in the room.
Among them, Marquis yeres and master Rhoda have already taken their seats, and two others are from the mage guild. What makes people care a little is that the two mages are actually a combination of old and young. The old one is probably half a hundred years old or even higher, because Sean can't feel the depth of each other's strength at all, which proves that each other is at least a golden wizard; The young one doesn't look a few years older than Sean, but he also has the same problem as ordinary magicians, that is, he is almost arrogant, but his strength is very close to Sean and reaches the silver peak.
In addition to the four people sitting on the chairs beside the long table, three middle-aged men also sat on the edge of the long table. However, these three people are obviously ordinary people, because the fluctuation of strength is almost no different from that of yeles, Rhoda and Patricia. Sean knows that one of them is Baron yeros, and the other two should also have the same title, but he doesn't know who they represent to attend the secret meeting.
As for others, there are many, as many as ten, but six of them are the strength of the top Silver Peak, and the other four are ordinary people. Just looking at the notebooks and quill pens in the hands of these four ordinary people, it is not difficult to guess what roles these people play.
The arrival of soma, Sean, Patricia, Christina and others suddenly increased the number of people in the room to 26.
But soon, Sean noticed a problem.
Except that soma only brought Qazi in and master Rhoda was alone, at least one master of the upper silver peak followed everyone else, especially those nobles, who were followed by two upper silver masters. Of course, in Sean's eyes, the strength of these people is not worth mentioning. The only people who can really be regarded as effective are Christina and the young magician whose breath is almost not under Sean.
Thinking of this, Sean turned his head and looked at paqiuli, but saw that she had calmly chosen a seat on the long table, and the two upper silver masters who followed her also impolitely chose two chairs closer to paqiuli to sit down. At this time, Sean unexpectedly found a phenomenon: the breath of the man on the left of pachuli's two followers may be a little worse than himself and the magician, but the cold murderous intention that he inadvertently sent out when he glanced at the people in the conference room just now was not under him.
This guy is obviously a real expert who has been fighting for a long time!
Soma glanced at the chair on the right side of the long table, that is, the Marquis of yeles. His face was obviously a little better. At least Patricia boulder didn't sit in the first place, otherwise the Hastings would really lose face. But Sean knew it was not that pachuli knew how to take into account the face of the Hastings family, but that she just wanted to say hello to yeles.
Sure enough, yeles was obviously shocked when he saw Patricia. He didn't recover until Patricia took his seat, but he turned his eyes to Sean. Sean sighed helplessly, nodded first, and then shook his head, which means that he already knows paqiuli's identity, but he doesn't know how paqiuli received the news and appeared here.
”Everyone came from the same place. Don't I know the information you can know?” Pachuli smiled. Although they may oppose each other inside the hellson institute because of factional relations, it was only an internal contradiction after all. On other occasions, she was relatively polite, ”why don't we cooperate first?”
Soma's heart jumped when she heard Patricia's words.
”My partner is the yelos family.” Yelles said.
Soma's face returned to normal after hearing yeles's words.
”Well, then it seems that we can only be competitors.” Pachuli didn't care much and smiled, ”is your participant your granddaughter?”
Yeles glanced at pachuli and didn't answer.
Silence is undoubtedly a skill of counterattack.
But Patricia, like a winner, turned her head to Sean and said with a smile, ”what about Viscount Fran? Do you want to join hands with me? The research results are divided into half of you. ”
Sean, who had just taken his seat, smiled friendly and didn't answer.
But his heart is very clear. If this thing is really that thing as he guessed, I'm afraid it's not something that yeles or pachuli can eat. Maybe they really want to cooperate once.
”Viscount Fran is one of us.” Yeles couldn't see it and finally opened his mouth to remind him.
What he called us, of course, meant the regenerator, but soma obviously misunderstood what yeles said.
After seeing everyone seated, soma coughed to attract her attention. In order to avoid pachuli not knowing what to do for a while, he immediately said, ”since everyone is here, I won't talk nonsense. Let's go straight to the topic.”
Hearing this, everyone's eyes immediately focused on soma.
This time, in order to maintain the apparent fairness, the Hastings family could not participate in the frontal competition for the mysterious drawings, but could only let the yeros family come forward. Although everyone present knew that yelos was a loyal dog who obeyed his orders, the nobles always liked to get a fig leaf, at least in face, so no one had broken this tacit understanding.
”Everyone attending this meeting came around this mysterious drawing, but because its value can not be considered at all, and considering that there are people from the mage guild, we will not hold an auction this time.” Soma pointed to the focus of the topic and completely ignored the important role played by master Rhoda, ”but took the way of competition. Everyone interested in the drawing can send up to two people to participate in the war. The strength is limited to the upper silver and below, and the person who finally wins can take the drawing.”
Hearing this, Sean was stunned and immediately understood why everyone would bring two superior silver experts.
But, thinking of this, Sean looked at the wizard guide of the mage guild. The other party only brought a magician at the top of the silver peak without any melee class. Is this too conceited? Or does this young magician have very strong strength?
”However, before the formal competition, according to the rules, we will conduct an open public appraisal of this mysterious drawing. At this time, if we think this drawing is not worth competing for, we can also give up this competition.” Soma spoke again and drew Sean's attention back. ”I'm here to remind you that this competition is not a game, but a real competition, so the loser may need to pay the price of his own life. Please consider it clearly and decide whether to participate in the competition.”
In the face of soma, the atmosphere in the venue was still silent and calm. Obviously, no one planned to give up.
Soma was obviously not surprised by this result. He waved, and master Rhoda immediately put the mysterious drawing he had been carrying on him on the long table in the conference room, and then unfolded it completely.
After the drawing is unfolded, it shows a square shape, with a length and width of one meter. The scale of this drawing is obviously a little outrageous.
However, it can be clearly seen from the material of the drawing that this is by no means an ordinary material.