Although some people took the opportunity to cause trouble along the way, they were all swiftly suppressed.
Thursday evening, July 23rd.
The third round of councilor evaluations commenced.
The Holy Church puppet ranked first and Lady Montilfali, ranked second, once again passed the evaluation without issue.
However, the other two candidate councilors who had passed the previous two evaluations in succession failed to make it through this time.
Thus, only two candidate councilors had successfully passed all three rounds, leaving them just one step away from becoming official councilors.
Once Lady Montilfali received the Holy Church's baptism in August, she would become one of the thirty-six councilors.
With that status, the Free City's position within the kingdom would become secure, and no one would dare covet it so lightly again.
Only then could the city's construction truly get on track.
However, the third round of evaluations was not yet over.
There would still be a fourth round, a fifth round... and only when a total of five candidate councilors had passed three evaluations would this third stage officially conclude.
In fact, it was not until the sixth round that the final councilor was selected.
But that would not happen until July 29th.
Sunday morning, July 26th.
After nearly two weeks of extracurricular research, Dark finally completed the optimization of "Pride IV"—on paper.
He had likely finished constructing the "Dual-Layer Pride Magic Crest" around July 23rd. He then spent the next two days continuously adjusting and optimizing it, finally arriving at a relatively complete result.
Mainly because he felt that working behind closed doors like this had reached its limit. Without experiments to support it, it was difficult to achieve any further breakthroughs.
He had barely thirty-one points of "Pride" in reserve, with no room for waste. In the end, he