Each Showing Their Skills

"Aolain, are we really going to do this? Can it actually work?"

Even before Aolain made this decision, his assistant had already sensed it coming.

Aolain had not told anyone else about this decision, so when he chose the Withered Flow District, the entire Territory Mage Working Group was as baffled as everyone outside it.

Based on the Territory Mage paper and other papers studying the role of territories, they could not understand why Aolain had chosen land controlled by the Church of the Goddess of Ocean Currents.

A territory ruled by a Sect was practically useless. Those divine believers would never submit to anyone else.

That was why nearly everyone in the Territory Mage Working Group avoided the Withered Flow District, where the Church of the Goddess of Ocean Currents was located. This was where the most believers gathered.

Quite a few people within the working group had even made plans long ago to throw the believers of the Goddess of Ocean Currents from other regions directly into the Withered Flow District—or kill them, to eliminate future trouble.

No one had expected Aolain, the researcher in whom the Elemental School had placed such high hopes, to make such a move.

Aolain glanced back at his assistant, chuckled, and slowly said,

"It isn't about whether we can do this. It's about the fact that we have to."

His assistant looked utterly confused. He still did not know why Aolain was going all in.

"The other Territory Mage Working Groups have all underestimated the difficulty of becoming a Territory Mage. They think they can always turn a mage into a Territory Mage before the first assessment."

"But I think that's wrong. Once all these Territory Mage Working Groups arrive at White Dragon Port, there are only two likely outcomes."

"One is