"Heh, Roland didn't suffer that assassination attempt for nothing!
All of this was actually compensation for the 'injustice' Roland suffered on their turf.
You could say that this incident alone brought the school direct benefits worth over a hundred million gold coins!"
In the offices of Seris Academy at the East Lainer Mage Tower.
Lie Yi and Blaise discussed the matter with broad smiles, their faces full of delight.
As they saw it, Roland had gone to Sinvira and inexplicably been targeted by a Lust Devil, but he hadn't actually lost out.
Politically speaking, he had even come out ahead.
Although the many rewards wouldn't immediately come back in cash, they would be reflected in various agreements and treaties.
That was Sinvira's answer to the incident.
"Isn't that a little heartless of us?"
Blaise still had some sense of propriety.
But a moment later, he too chuckled.
"Truly, the Goddess of Luck was watching over us!"
Roland's visit to Sinvira as an envoy had brought several matters to fruition, achievements respectable enough to present publicly.
At the same time, however, the Seris School seemed to have reaped quite a few benefits along the way.
Some people noticed that several of these were related to battle tattoos and other research results.
"Battle tattoos..."
"Are they really that miraculous?"
"The results only came out a little while ago, and they're already betting this much on them."
Unlike Lie Yi, Blaise, and the others, who were secretly delighted, many people wondered whether Sinvira genuinely believed in the benefits of this technique or was simply offering "compensation."
Much like the traditional scrolls that competed directly with Magic Cards, many developments in the arcane world could actually achieve similar effects.
Each addressed the various kinds of magic power a mage could draw upon, fully