The Witcher: Make Witcher Great Again

Chapter 257 Please Express Your Opinion Directly

Tissia de Vries is one of the oldest sorcerers still alive after Alzu and Cosimo.

Although he is a high-level warlock like Yennefer and others, his strength has long surpassed Yennefer.

Just one step away from becoming a legendary warlock.

Now, she has relieved herself of the heavy responsibility of Aretuza and handed it over to her student Margarita as dean.

But she is not a hands-off boss who doesn't care about anything. She still cares about Aretusa and the students in the academy in her own way.

Although they were not in the same time or place, Tissaia's ideas coincided with those of Vesemir, the Grand Master of the Wolf School.

Tissaia also did not want Aretusa to be involved in the vortex of political struggle, and she was even more unwilling to see her students being exploited by the ambitions and desires of the northern kings and making unnecessary sacrifices.

But how easy is it to maintain neutrality among the northern countries?

Aretuza College is located in Goth Velen, which is located in the Kingdom of Temeria.

The current King of Temeria, Foltest, is quite friendly towards Aretuza and has never made the rude request to force Aretuza Academy to fight for him.

But the king of Temeria's neighboring country, Redania, King Vizimir, known as "The Just," is not like Foltest.

He had sent envoys to Aretuza College several times, expressing his hope that the college could solve the problem of "unemployment after graduation" with generous treatment.

But they were all blocked by Tishaya and Margarita for various reasons.

However, she and Margarita did not want to anger King Vizimir, so they exchanged some benefits with Redania in other aspects.

Lest King Vizimir think Aretuza has completely surrendered to Temeria.

But as time went on, Tissaia found it increasingly difficult to maintain neutrality among the northern countries.

As the economy goes downhill, the lives of people in various countries become increasingly difficult and harsh. The increase in the Engel coefficient has led to a gradual increase in people's resentment and hostility.

Social contradictions have gradually surfaced and intensified.

The kings were certainly aware of this.

They just don't care about the common people, but they are not so blind as to ignore the numerous crises.

However, even Tissaia, who had lived for hundreds of years, could not have imagined the way the kings resolved the crisis.

They obviously have many ways.

But he chose the worst move.

In order to maintain their own position, they provoke friction and disputes among countries externally, and internally they direct conflicts towards non-human races in the country, in order to divert the attention of the domestic people from the successive failures of governance and the widening gap between the rich and the poor.

Although no major war broke out among the northern countries over the years, small-scale border conflicts continued to occur one after another.

As an old man who lived through hundreds of years ago, I think the world is really rotten now.

Faced with such a situation, Tishaya couldn't and didn't want to take care of it.

She just wanted to protect the utopia of Aretuza and keep her students away from disputes and power struggles that could give people a brain hemorrhage.

At this moment, she suddenly discovered that Triss, the young girl who was not very worldly-wise (from Tissaia's perspective), was going to Aretuza Academy more frequently.

Of course, Tishaya didn’t mean that female students who had already graduated couldn’t come back.

It's just not this frequent. Noticing something was wrong, Tissaia deliberately approached Triss.

Then he easily got Lynn's name and deeds from Triss.

As a purple old woman who has lived for hundreds of years, Tishaya was keenly aware that this demon hunter named Lynn was no ordinary person.

That's why she came to meet him before he was about to leave Novigrad.

I just want to get to know better whether the other party has the potential to be an ally.

Seeing that Tissaia's expression did not seem fake, and because he was familiar with the plot, Lin En knew Tissaia's character and nature.

He thought about it and said.

"The Warlock Brotherhood appears to be doing well on the surface, but in reality its situation has reached a very dangerous point."

"How do you say this?"

"Ms. Tissaia, the current dean of Aretuza Academy...if I remember correctly, it's Margarita Laux Antille, am I right?"

Although she didn't know why the topic suddenly changed from the Warlock Brotherhood to Aretuza Academy, Tissaia nodded: "That's right."

Lin En smiled and said, "I heard that when you were the dean of Aretusa, the atmosphere of the entire academy was very serious and old-fashioned, but after Ms. Margarita took over from you, the atmosphere changed."

Tisha frowned, becoming more confused.

"What exactly do you want to say? Please express your opinion directly."

Lin En spread his hands and said, "What I want to say is very simple. I want to ask you a question. If Aretuza College now has a consultant, and the college has to consult that consultant before doing anything, what would you think?"

After all, Tishaya was a sorceress who had lived for hundreds of years, and she immediately understood what Lin En meant.

He used Aretuza Academy to refer to the northern kingdoms, and used Consultant to refer to the Brotherhood of Warlocks.

"The example you gave is inappropriate, because the royal advisors sent by the Warlock Brotherhood to the Northern Kings only offer insights into magic and do not participate in court politics."

"Is that really the case?" Lynn cleared her throat.

He picked up the glass and took a sip of the rosé wine.

If you talk to me about this, I won’t be sleepy anymore.

As a person who became a chef after graduation, he studied history in college.

Lin En spoke as if he knew everything by heart.

The Six Years' War ended in 836 with the mediation of Rafad the White, and a peace treaty was signed at Bruges.

"Temeria, which Rafad supported, benefited from the war. Many princes and dukes of small countries that stood against Temeria were forced to leave their countries."

"After the death of Rafad the White, King Abdank of Temeria also passed away soon after."

"Because Abdanq had intellectual disabilities, he left no heirs."

"The nobles of Temeria engaged in an even longer conflict over the succession to the throne. This conflict lasted until the 11th century. Because it lasted so long and the people saw no sign of an end, it was also called the Endless War."

"Then, this endless war, which seemed to last forever until the destruction of the world, ended at the hands of the legendary warlock Alzu."

(End of this chapter)