Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1615 1587. The Sorceresses' Gathering House
"Okay, okay." Margarita frowned, but still complained in a joking tone, "It seems that after experiencing a coup, our great mentor has also become a person who likes to leak secrets?"

But then, she still couldn't suppress her emotions, and whispered to Tishaya: "We agreed to keep it a secret!"

Tishaya, who was leaning against the window, didn't even turn her head and spoke in a flat tone.

"You really expect to hide it from him?"

The sunlight shines through the shirt that Lan En took off, illuminating the graceful body of Tishaya wrapped in it, creating a hazy outline that is inspiring endless imagination. The sea breeze blowing in from the window also helps to outline the figure underneath the shirt.

Beneath the hem of her shirt, the sorceress' thighs were revealed, showing through the years but still full and round.

After Tishaya finished speaking, she tilted her head with a hint of teasing and glanced at her student and good friend.

She pulled down the collar of her shirt, which she had just pulled up.

He reached out and touched his exposed delicate collarbone and shoulders.

"When he holds you from behind like this, kissing you here and whispering something to you after a lovemaking session that's so satisfying it makes you cry, tell me, Rita. Can you say no to him?"

Margarita didn't reply. She just scratched her head, messing up her gorgeous blonde hair, and then screamed madly: "Ah~"

Cassandra didn't know what the two of them were trying to hide before, but after listening to the scene described by Tishaya, just by imagining it, she couldn't help but laugh with shaking body.

"Haha, I just can't do it."

She gave the answer for the frantic Margarita.

There were heavy footsteps coming from the corridor outside the room.

Without seeing the person, the three beauties knew who was coming.

And if the person didn't come on purpose, his footsteps probably wouldn't sound so heavy.

This is to tell them that I am here.

Cassandra, who was leaning against the door with half of her body still outside, turned around first and greeted Lan.

"Hey, you looked busy last night."

The demon hunter came over after his morning exercise and bent down to kiss Cassandra on the cheek.

"I'm sorry, but some things can only be asked privately."

"I understand." Cassandra turned her head, smiled and bit the other person's lips.

After Lan En entered the room, she followed him into Tishaya's bedroom.

Cassandra sat down on the messy bed carelessly, while Lan walked towards Margarita.

The demon hunter stood in front of Margarita, spread his hands, and then asked directly without any context: "Why?"

Margarita, on the other hand, was not like she usually was when she was with Lan. She was constantly thinking about teasing and seducing him for fun.

Instead, he answered seriously and earnestly: "For my students."

"I knew it." Lan En was not surprised, but just frowned with a headache.

The 'gathering house' that Tishaya mentioned before is actually the Sorceresses' Gathering House.

Lan En had never heard of this organization before. In fact, this organization was only created two months after the coup on Thaned Island.

As the name suggests, it is a gathering place composed entirely of sorceresses, and the person who took the lead in organizing it is Philippa Eilhart.

Lan En just felt that Margarita was hiding something from him last night, so after he came to Tishaya alone, he asked one more question.

But he didn't expect that just by asking, Tishaya told him such big news.

Just as Lan En had thought before: even the Supreme Council of Warlocks and the Association of Talents and Crafts had collapsed because of the coup on Thaned Island.

But the outstanding and ambitious warlocks will never stop.

Philippa Ehrhart was undoubtedly this person.

She planned the first half of the coup, but unexpectedly lost control of the second half.

Even though the original plan failed and the king of the Kingdom of Redania where she served was suddenly assassinated, it did not affect this woman's mentality.

Instead, she became more cautious.

The incident on Thaned Island made it difficult for all countries to trust the sorcerers. So she simply formed a secret organization that was not exposed to the public.

According to Tishaya's introduction, this secretly established organization has a simple structure and a small number of members, but each of them is a leader among female sorcerers.

They are spread across the kingdoms, and even after the events on Thanedd Island, when public trust in sorcerers dropped drastically, they still have considerable influence.

These sorceresses secretly united together and formed a transcendent alliance that even transcended the differences between the north and south of the continent.

Yes, Philippa Eilhart, who called for the killing of the sorcerers who defected to the south and eliminated the traitors during the coup on Thaned Island. After the coup failed, she immediately contacted the sorcerers in the south and sought to form an alliance. On the surface, these court sorceresses who provide advice to the king are actually manipulators who ignore nationality or personal beliefs but are loyal to each other. Their only goal is to promote the interests of magic.

But as always, the sorceresses' understanding of politics was quite superficial and naive in Lan's eyes.

They fantasize about controlling the world situation by building a "deep government coalition" like the simplest conspiracy theory.

However, this kind of conspiracy theory organization is the most shameful, and being shameless means that the so-called satisfaction of "standing behind the scenes, laughing at the world, and controlling the world" is nothing but the complacency of the clowns.

They may be able to influence some situations, but they will never be able to become the ones who can decide and shape the situation.

"You are involved with Philippa." Lan En sighed, "and there is also a sorceress from the south in this meeting house. Do you know the consequences of being exposed, Rita?"

Without waiting for Margarita to respond, Lan En told the result: "No one will listen to your explanation. You will be directly labeled as a traitorous warlock who made peace with the South."

"This is just in the north. If the sorceresses' gathering is exposed, then this sorcerer organization that unites the north and the south will immediately be regarded as a traitor and a threat by both sides."

"It's all over for you, and for all of Aretuza."

"Then am I just going to watch my students do nothing?" Margarita responded stubbornly, "Just watch them get sucked into the meat grinder by dirty politics and turned into lubricated blood mud?!"

"Only if I join this organization can I know what they want to do with those young warlocks! Otherwise, are we going to let Philippa or Foltest and the others incite them?"

Lan En looked at the stubborn Margarita, lowered his head and sighed.

After all, she was still the head sorceress who, because of the disappearance of a student, went alone into the wild Velen in order to achieve a win-win solution of suppressing the negative influence and protecting the students.

In her opinion, letting students be unwittingly dragged into the vortex of political struggle might be even more bloody and dangerous than the fate of the student who was deceived into the depths of Willen.

"Even if you join, you won't be able to beat her."

Tishaya still looked abstinent and cold, with her hands folded across her chest, speaking with her face turned sideways.

"Your magical attainments surpass Philippa Eilhart's, which is why she took great pains to invite you to join. But once you join the organizational structure, magical attainments won't help you much. You need to rely on your brains, vision, and decisive character."

"Then let Philippa fight to the death with Foltest, Henselt, and the Emperor of Nilfgaard."

Margarita waved.

"Anyway, they are all people who want to use my students as minced meat! Let them fight each other!"

"You are still too naive."

"Then you should come and help me, Tishaya!"

"I refuse." Tishaya said calmly, still leaning against the window sill, looking at the blue and vast sea outside of Thaned Island, "I will protect the academy and students in my own way, and protect the development of magic."

"But I cannot forgive Philippa Eilhart. She will never be able to beg for this thing from me! And let alone, I will never forgive Francesca Findaby! The betrayer is now the Queen of the Elves, and she is also in your meeting house!"

Francesca, who is said to have the most beautiful face in the world, succumbed to the plan of the Emperor of Nilfgaard and now declared the establishment of an autonomous elven kingdom in Dol Bretanna, the Valley of Flowers, which was once part of Aedirn.

And she is the queen of the elves.

Lan En looked around at Margarita and Tishaya. He could see that this kind of argument must have happened between them many times.

So much so that neither of them had any hope of convincing the other.

Tishaya didn't like this so-called sorceresses' gathering place, so when Lan En asked, apart from being truly confused and bewildered, she actually had no intention of keeping it a secret for them.

Indeed, the older generation of sorcerers such as Tishaya and Gedimitis also wanted to protect and maintain the development of magic. They could even be said to be the earliest enlighteners of this idea among sorcerers.

But a secret organization led by Philippa Eilhart? Tishaya wanted nothing to do with it.

"It seems that you both can't convince each other on this point."

Lan En shook his head.

If it were anything else, it would be easy to talk about, but when it comes to students and the college, Margarita and Tishaya will be very persistent.

"I can't convince you either, but remember, Rita."

Lan advised Margarita.

"Don't leave too many traces in that assembly hall, don't participate in too many decisions, and don't express too many opinions. Do you understand?"

"I didn't expect to be able to call the shots there." Margarita nodded, "I just wanted to supervise them. I know my own limitations."

"That's the only thing I can trust about you." Lan En smiled bitterly.

Normally, Margarita, a hedonist, has little desire for power and control, which almost makes her an outlier in the generally ambitious atmosphere of famous sorceresses.

But right now, this may not be a bad thing.

(End of this chapter)