Harvest and Extra Attention

As Fran left the Silver-Scale Manor, she sincerely thought that she should avoid attending such banquets unless absolutely necessary.

Even when Fran was later using the damaged state of the throne when it disappeared to make up the numbers, the mages still acted very enthusiastically, wishing they could send her more Combat Technique.

As a result, Fran obtained everything she wanted at the banquet, including the Promotion Method the Ranger level for Anna, the two sword techniques Fran needed, and more than twenty Combat Technique.

It's safe to say that Fran no longer needs to attend those miscellaneous banquets; she has already finished her business.

"I don't think I revealed any crucial information. I remember the most important information I revealed was when I obtained the Promotion Method the Ranger level."

"At that time, I revealed that half of Antir's knights died during the conquest of Antir..."

"The rest is all information related to the throne, and any territory occupied under the guise of the Alliance will have its throne shattered, a point I didn't explicitly state."

Overall, Fran was quite satisfied with tonight's dinner party, though not with the famous painter the organizers had specially invited.

That famous painter was also a Second Order Mage, but at that banquet, almost no one paid attention to him, and no mage discussed his works at all.

Even he himself was quite interested in bringing a combat skill with him to ask Fran Antier questions.

Fran was truly satisfied with was that this banquet had almost resolved all the problems she needed to solve at the event. Those mages, for some reason, were all rushing to curry favor with her.

Even the Combat Technique problem that she considered the most difficult to solve was actually solved here.

All Fran needs to give up is her tired lips from making up stories tonight, and her brain that's started repeating the same lines over and over again.

"This Profession should suit Anna quite well."

She looked at the new Profession prompt that had appeared on her Panel.

[Profession: Sharpshooter

Description: An advanced Profession of the Ranger, focusing on shooting, possessing the ability to quickly aim and fire, and can alter the trajectory of projectiles.

Conditions for achievement: 1. Engage in high-intensity combat using only ranged weapons within one month.

2. Master the two Sharpshooter -related Arts (see appendix for details).

3. Physical constitution attribute exceeds 8 points.

4. Possesses First Order Ranger rank.

"The third item is a bit difficult..."

Fran glanced at the contents. The first and fourth items were a piece of cake for Anna. The second item was a bit difficult, but she estimated that Anna could complete it in about a year and a half under Fran's supervision.

This third item was something Fran found rather perplexing.

Because it is difficult to improve physical fitness in Profession, many Profession find it difficult to improve their physical fitness even slightly no matter how much they exercise. This is a characteristic of the Profession system.

Profession can only improve their combat power by mastering or becoming proficient in more Arts; it is difficult to improve their basic attributes.

As for Anna, being Ranger, a Profession that is clearly known for its agility, although Fran hadn't tested her physical attributes, she knew that they were definitely below the baseline of 7 points for First Order Physical Profession.

In this situation, if Anna wants to be promoted, she can only pray that she can reach the 'extraordinary' level in a certain Arts, which might improve her physique.

For Fran, there were other methods, namely alchemical potions.

That's why the descriptions on the Panel describe Alchemist as a group capable of pulling out all sorts of strange and wonderful things to solve problems.

The fact is that on the mainland, magical alchemical potions can indeed solve some problems and even improve the physical condition of Profession.

"I think it was called Body Promotion Potion. It could permanently improve the user's physical attributes and was also useful for First Order Profession, but it probably wouldn't be of any use to me right now."

"I'll look into it later, but I seem to be missing some materials... Oh well, I'll rest for half a month and then go attend the banquet where I can get promotion materials."

Fran was exhausted after being questioned all night, so she didn't really want to attend any banquets lately.

Inside a small, specially expanded conference room on the third floor of the main building of the Alchemy School, the Aether Palace.

There was an ordinary long table here, made from what looked like a tree casually felled by the roadside in the Floating City, but the craftsmanship was exquisite, with rounded edges on all four corners, without a single crack or burr.

' The Sage of Time ' Aunrich sat in the head seat, his head drooping as if his spine could not bear it. His eyes were tightly closed, as if he were too tired and lacked rest.

On either side of the long table, a group of important figures from different School gathered, indicating that this meeting was anything but simple.

Several seats remained empty in the arranged seating area, sitting there forlornly, indicating that not all the participants for the meeting had yet arrived.

Some monks sat next to their close friends, chatting quietly to pass the time before the meeting began.

Roderick was quietly looking at the terminal he had just received; it was supposedly a newly developed communication device.

Roderick shouldn't have paid much attention to this newly appeared terminal, but it just so happens to come from the Felistin Family.

Why would that family, which should have been suppressed, release this Communication Device at this time?

Is this a blatant protest against the injustice suffered by the family?

Why is it that just because a member of the Felistin Family recently won the All-Forms Mage Award, all eyes are now on the Felistin family, given that there are so many powerful Mage Family in the Floating City?

Isn't the Felistin Family simply trying to recruit more mages through extensive marriage alliances? What's there to be wary of?

Where are those families who control monopolistic industries? Why don't you go and suppress them? Like that Burns Family, who practically monopolize the construction of Magic Duel arenas...

Roderick believed that striking that Mage Family was not important, because there were simply too many Mage Family in the Floating City, but none of them had ever amounted to much.

This is because magic and transcendent Order cannot be passed down through bloodlines, so many mages who have no intention of forming a family don't even glance at these mages.

It is also because the family system cannot form a stable succession of extraordinary Order that many High-Order Mage do not have a family behind them and are all alone.

This has led to a situation where, with the emergence of the Territory Mage's Paper, those High-Order Mage who are now living alone have been on guard against whether these families will usher in new opportunities.

They didn't have a powerful family backing them, and by then it was too late to start building one. So when a competitor vying for resources suddenly had the potential to rise to prominence, they had to consider whether to stifle that opportunity.

Will this change the Alliance's survival rules? Will mages be required to join a clan to learn magic after they are born?

These concerns have prevented the Alliance Council from establishing a clear standard for Territory Mage or developing relevant countermeasures to this day.

However, this stalemate will soon be over, because there are too many mages in the Alliance Council without a family backing them. Soon the Council will introduce new policies to regulate the current situation where major Mage Family recruit people for projects.

However, there is one thing that still gives Roderick a headache: the Communication Device Communication Device in his hand. He finds that he has no way to stop it.

Previously, their suppression of Felistin was achieved by first seizing power in key positions within government agencies and societies controlled by High-Order Mage, and then implementing an overt but covert method to suppress Felistin.

Faced with the Communication Device introduced by the Felistin Family, their power was no longer able to exert any means of suppression.

If suppression is truly to be implemented, then it must be brought into the open, rather than being something that even newspapers cannot discuss.

This led many mages in their group to disagree, believing that the Alliance should not openly attack each other because of what some mages were planning to do, as this would contradict the original purpose of the Alliance.

This was simply a way of selling Communication Device to monks; it just so happened that the Communication Device was quite popular.

The supporting facilities for this device had already been reviewed and approved, and they couldn't just cut them off arbitrarily.

Moreover, the person who helped the Felistin Family pass the review was the mage Lai, who was brought up by Iris, and he used the special approval process for award-winning mages.

This makes it even harder to tamper with the program, which is why Roderick was at a loss when faced with this Communication Device.

"Roderick, are you also working on this new communication terminal?"

Just then, a monk next to him asked a question, and he smiled and took out a communication terminal from his hand.

Roderick's eyelids twitched, and he spoke:

"You have one of these too?"

"Yes, although this thing can only communicate from the Floating City right now, its communication quality is the best besides the official the Alliance channels."

"I even spent ten Gold Coin to have the people over there build the magic element pipeline to my house first..."

"Before I understood that the basic principle of this thing was magic element, I was very curious about what exactly could support such a massive communication system and require such a complete management system..."

"I heard this was created by the Mana Communication System project. It's really given the person in charge there a direction to take. The previous Mana Communication System was practically designed to destroy Gold Coin..."

Roderick already knew the information the other party mentioned, and after learning all this information, he didn't even have a way to take action.

When the mage next to him, who was not usually aware of the recent Felistin affair, excitedly discussed the new Communication Device, Roderick couldn't help but sigh.

He also believed that this communication device was a very successful magical contraption, but it just so happened that it was promoted by the Felistin Family at this time.

"Forget it, let's put it aside for now. It's just a Communication Device; the Felistin Family won't be able to cause any trouble."