On the television, at the general draft venue in Norway, Elsa Stern stepped onto the stage amid a chorus of boos.
This former president-witch of the Witch Alliance had been recruited by the Witch Agency for her outstanding qualifications and achievements over the years, and once again elected president of the International Tournament Witchgci Federation.
This woman of superhuman will, who had witnessed the Alliance's rise and fall, the founding of the International Tournament Witchgci Federation, and then the merger of the International Tournament Witchgci Federation and the Alliance, held the microphone. Her smile bloomed like a flower as she picked up a small slip of paper and announced into the suddenly silent venue:
"With the first pick of the 1995 International Tournament Witchgci Federation Draft, the South City Mandrakes select... Alesha Wellington! From Vitrens Bridge Academy in England."
Delicate-featured yet possessed of an exceptionally sunny, gentle smile, Alesha Wellington became the first overall pick exactly as every witch had expected.
This witch stood only 1.66 meters tall, but her slightly slender body contained nearly 350,000 units of magic power. Only twenty years old, she was proficient in every school of magic. Almost everyone believed she would become the next witch capable of challenging for the highest seat among the great witches—like Eileen, like Angelite, like Kraken.
For a witch whose ceiling was "Angelite" and whose floor was "Kraken," the draft was practically an open card.
Even clubs desperately, desperately in need of immediate combat strength had over a fifty-percent chance of picking her outright!
The perennially dreadful South City Mandrakes had not made the playoffs in the Witch League division since 1910—not even the Witch World Invitational. They had once created the "legendary cosmic tanking" record of 288 losses in a 271-game season. Even aliens had heard of a