"It seemed the Galente Federation's lobbying for so long had still been somewhat effective."
"At least they secured over ten thousand votes in favor, didn't they?" Saine chuckled to Meili, who stood behind him.
Meili's life level was very low, only Rank Four.
However, because she had followed Saine for many years and handled many matters on his behalf, her perspective was far from limited. She had also learned quite a few insider details from the deeper layers of Wizard Civilization in advance.
At Saine's chuckle, Meili nodded, but offered no opinion.
The voting pattern of this session alone showed that it was not yet time for the Galente Federation to join Wizard Civilization.
Those more than one hundred thousand abstention votes were not an isolated occurrence. Other high-ranking figures in Wizard Civilization surely had a hand in them.
For example, although there were not many Rank Four and above knights and mages in Saine's Land of Ashes, every one of them, like Saine, had cast an abstention vote.
They had all been instructed beforehand.
After the third item on the Assembly agenda concluded, the fourth issue swiftly followed, and it was equally eye-catching.
From her platform high in the air, Befu looked down at the hundreds of thousands of powerful Wizard Alliance members below and solemnly announced, "The fourth item of the Assembly: face the Evil Tide invasion crisis currently afflicting the Minghe Empire, and designate Evil Tide Civilization as the primary threat Wizard Civilization must focus on in the future!"
Evil Tide Civilization!
Many Wizard Alliance powerhouses were hearing this unfamiliar civilization's name for the first time.
This included the Rank Four and above knights and mages of the Wizard World. Befu and the others had not yet promoted the Evil Tide Crisis across the entirety of