"Good afternoon, Lord Tadius." Velin placed his right hand over his chest and bowed.
Kyle and Zelia followed Velin's lead and saluted Tadius.
"So you're Elisa's child. I never expected that little girl from back then to have a child this grown already." Tadius waved over three chairs and set them behind the trio. "Sit down and talk."
Hearing this, Velin sat in a soft office chair, took out the letter his mother had written to Tadius, lifted it with Battle Qi, and placed it on the desk.
Without standing on ceremony, Tadius opened the letter and began reading it as though no one else were present.
"Who is the young man you want to arrange for?"
At this, Velin had Zelia step forward.
Tadius stepped forward to inspect Zelia's body. His talent was average, his strength was only at the Apprentice Intermediate Stage, and he was an earth-element mage. Turning back, Tadius asked uncertainly, "Is he your illegitimate son?"
"Cough, cough, cough, Lord Tadius, please don't joke like that. I'm not married, and I've never even had intimate contact with any woman." Velin hurriedly explained. The old man's words were far too frightening.
Tadius looked him over from head to toe. The boy was still a virgin, so it seemed he had indeed guessed wrong.
"Isabelle."
The secretary, Isabelle, had been working in the office when she heard the headmaster call for her. She set aside the document she had only half reviewed and entered Tadius's office. "Headmaster, you summoned me?"
"Take him to complete his enrollment procedures. Place him in First Year Class Three for now, and tell that boy Tarien to take better care of him. As for his living allowance, issue it according to the second tier." Tarius pushed Zelia toward Isabelle and gave her his