The fifteen-day celebration ended, and all of Silvermoon City began returning to normal.
Silvermoon City, the Cabrolon family estate.
Patrick returned to his family and still needed to clarify their future course of development. As Patrick's own strength grew, the Council intensified its actions, and the Cabrolon family's circle in Silvermoon City would shrink even further.
In principle, now that Patrick had advanced to the eighth tier, the Council should have granted him a public office. After all, a standing councilor's position carried public authority and was also one of Silvermoon City's most direct paths to advancement, somewhat resembling the imperial examination system. The difference, however, was that the Silvermoon Council considered only a mage's spellcasting level. Upon reaching the corresponding level, a mage automatically gained a seat on the Silvermoon Council.
At this meeting of the Silvermoon Council, its four councilors had acted in their usual tacit agreement, keeping him in the Ghostlands. Although they had expanded some of his powers, he still had not entered the elves' upper ranks. Only one councilor had secretly reached a partial agreement with him, but benefits went both ways. Whatever he gained would also determine how much Dawnblade gained.
Over the years, the Council had constantly worked against them in secret, increasing the Cabrolon family's material production costs, reducing its annual purchasing quota, controlling the sales channels for the Cabrolon family's products in Silvermoon City, and so on. Patrick could not even be bothered to count them all. By now, the Cabrolon family's businesses in Silvermoon City could, at most, be considered a training base, with large numbers of skilled people and mages sent to the Life Forest and the Sun Temple to assist their development.
Outside the city, it was difficult for the Council's people to infiltrate, which also ensured healthy