A plea for help

"Great Shaman Gao Jing, please, you have to help me."

In the lounge at the Wizard Academy, Shen Ze said bitterly, "I really have nowhere else to turn."

Gao Jing sighed and replied, "Sorry."

He and Shen Ze had not seen each other for some time. Their relationship was no longer what it had been; they had gradually drifted apart.

Now Shen Ze had suddenly come asking him for help, and it actually involved the Bear Clan, which had recently returned to the City of Ten Thousand Kings!

Shen Ze was a member of a collateral branch of the Shen Clan, which was also one of the Seventy-Two Noble Families.

However, the Shen Clan ranked at the very bottom of the Seventy-Two Noble Families. Neither its strength nor its influence was particularly impressive.

Previously, the Wu Clan had tried to suppress Gao Jing over a resident seat at the Radiant Wizard Tower.

Since Gao Jing and Shen Ze jointly operated several shops, the Wu Clan had used the Shen Clan to force Shen Ze to abandon their partnership.

At the time, Gao Jing had understood and had not blamed Shen Ze.

But their friendship had inevitably grown thinner.

Now the Shen Clan was in trouble—very, very serious trouble!

They were highly likely to lose their standing among the Seventy-Two Noble Families, along with their seat on the Supreme Council!

Just two days earlier, the Lu Clan of the City of Ten Thousand Kings had submitted a challenge application to the Supreme Council.

The target of that challenge was none other than the Shen Clan!

There were hundreds upon thousands of established clans in the City of Ten Thousand Kings, and the strongest were undoubtedly the Seventy-Two Noble Families.

Those seventy-two clans were recognized as ranked lineages.

The unranked lineages were,