197: Chapter 197 Wizarding Conference

The next day.

On the bustling street.

"Have you heard? A founding meritorious family was wiped out last night!"

"You're just talking nonsense. I saw Great Knight Willy of the Bright Family yesterday."

"Nonsense! I saw the City Guard go to the Bright Family manor with my own eyes. You could smell the stench of blood just standing outside the wall."

"I heard it from my great-grandfather's brother's nephew's son's aunt. It seems it wasn't done by a human. The scene was absolutely terrifying!"

"Is it really that bizarre? Come to think of it, I didn't hear any noise last night."

"You sleep like a pig; it would be strange if you did hear anything!"

"Who are you calling a pig! Say that again if you dare!"

"Did I say anything wrong? I don't know who…"

"…"

Watching the passersby start to fight, Nie Ning shook his head, ate his steamed bun, and walked toward the other end of the street.

After wandering around for a while, Nie Ning arrived in front of a five-story castle building.

Nie Ning looked at the castle, then glanced at the gatepost, which had a plaque engraved with the three characters "The Federation".

"Why build it so conspicuously…"

In Nie Ning's view, places related to wizards should be low-profile.

For example, the Federation Branch in other cities are basically located together with the Guard Hall. This way, no one would be disturbed, and no one would know what happens there.

People would subconsciously think it's the office building or dormitory of the Guard Hall, and anyone with a reasonably normal brain wouldn't run there.

Nie Ning walked into the courtyard gate and saw a young woman coming to meet him.

He sensed her cultivation and was surprised to find she was at the peak of the apprentice level.

"May I ask who you are, sir?"

The young woman asked with a professional smile on her face.

"You can tell my strength?"

Nie Ning didn't answer, but asked curiously instead.

With his current strength, crushing her by three major realms, it should be impossible for her to discern his strength.

"Uh, there is a Spiritual Power sensing device inside. It can detect mental fluctuations at the Official Wizard level, but it can't tell the specific strength."

The woman explained while inviting Nie Ning to head inside.

Nie Ning nodded upon hearing this.

After wizards have developed for so many years, it's normal to have some small gadgets.

"My name is Bronk, and I am a wizard from Ska City."

When the woman heard Nie Ning was from Ska City, her expression slightly froze.

Because a lot of things have been happening there recently, especially with the Vice President dying in that place.

Looking at Nie Ning's young face, who could have imagined that such a young person was actually a Second Ring Wizard.

Seeing the woman dazed, Nie Ning reached out and waved his hand in front of her.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

The woman snapped back to reality and quickly apologized.

Nie Ning smiled and didn't mind too much: "It's fine. I'm here to see the President. Is he here?"

"The President is currently in a meeting inside. You can wait in the lounge for a while."

The woman said, while leading Nie Ning to the second floor of the castle.

Nie Ning looked around and soon sensed several powerful Spiritual Power fluctuations coming from a room.

"Are there any wizards from the Crimson Holy Blade?" Nie Ning suddenly asked.

Although the woman didn't understand what Nie Ning meant, she still shook her head.

"In that case, I also want to learn how the headquarters handles things."

Nie Ning didn't wait for the woman to speak and pushed open the door to enter the meeting room.

There were 6 people sitting inside, four men and two women. Among them, a man in his fifties had exceptionally strong Spiritual Power.

Seeing Nie Ning walk in, the people in the room frowned.

"I am a resident wizard from Ska City. Everyone, don't mind me. I just happened to be passing by and came in to learn."

Nie Ning casually pulled up a chair and sat down.

Upon hearing that Nie Ning was from Ska City, the group's eyes changed when they looked at him.

Leaving aside the matter of Skadi, based on the information they had received, Nie Ning's own strength had reached the Second Ring Wizard level.

Currently, The Federation only had one person with the strongest strength, and that was the President, Augustine, who was sitting at the head.

And Second-Tier Wizards were already among the top tier of people; in the entire Wilbes Republic, there were no more than twenty of them in total.

Augustine gave Nie Ning a deep look, then signaled for everyone to continue the meeting.

The content of the meeting mainly revolved around the distribution of wizards in the Wilbes Republic.

Many wizards and apprentices had died in the last two years, and now even the Vice President had died, leading to many things being unmanageable.

Then there was the distribution of advanced magic potions for apprentices in the capital, as well as wizard benefits and last night's Corruptor extermination incident.

As the gathering place for the kingdom's top wizards, eighty percent of the magic potions were used here, and the amount of magic potions that could be distributed elsewhere was very little.

Especially the few wizards present; within half an hour, everyone mentioned that they had outstanding wizard descendants and wanted to ask for a bottle of advanced magic potion for them to use.

The wizard benefits were even more outrageous; someone actually demanded to increase the benefits for capital wizards on the grounds that they contributed the most, while not saying a word about wizards outside the capital.

Besides the Second Ring Wizards, they even wanted to weaken the benefits for those below the First-Ring Wizard level.

After listening for a while, Nie Ning was directly amused by this group of people.

And Nie Ning's laughter naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the wizards present.

In their view, they hadn't touched the interests of Second Ring Wizards, which seemed to them as if they had already given Nie Ning enough face.

"I wonder if Wizard Bronk has any dissatisfaction?"

Augustine looked up at Nie Ning and asked slowly.

"Of course there are parts I'm dissatisfied with."

Nie Ning looked around and continued, meeting everyone's gaze.

"I think the benefits for capital wizards should all be halved, over sixty percent of the magic potions should be taken out for wizards outside the capital to use, and everyone needs to take turns stationed in cities outside the capital."

"I wonder what everyone thinks?"

Upon hearing this, a male wizard slammed the table and stood up, pointing angrily at Nie Ning: "What do you mean by this? Are you implying that we just take resources without doing any work?"

Nie Ning slowly stood up, and a terrifying pressure fell upon the wizards in the room.

The wizards in the room had changing expressions, unable to understand why someone could advance to the third tier!

"Whether it is or not, you should know in your own hearts. I am also very willing to listen to everyone's opinions."

As he spoke, Nie Ning looked at the male wizard who had stood up: "Come, you, speak up. It seems you have the biggest opinions. You must have some better ideas. Speak them out so we can discuss them."

Nie Ning didn't consider himself a good person, nor did he necessarily want to fight for benefits for others.

But the goal of increasing his strength was not just to become stronger, but to be able to make things go his way when he encountered unpleasant situations!

Just like now, he really didn't like what this group of people was saying.

Since his strength was greater than theirs, there was no need to concede to them!