Understand humans!

"All donated to San Lorenzo..."

Winton didn't know what to say.

Consciously ashamed.

As a native of San Lorenzo, he was unable to use up half of his life savings to build San Lorenzo.

And Aura, an outsider and the new minister who had just arrived in San Lorenzo for less than a month, took out his life savings and invested them in the magic education in San Lorenzo.

This is the savings that Master Aura has not been willing to spend for more than ten years! !

As Winton was about to get on the carriage back to San Lorenzo, holding the box, he slapped himself again.

"I, Winton, am a piece of shit!"

"Lord Aura devoted himself to San Lorenzo and spent all his wealth to support magical education."

"I actually wanted to collude with the nobles to trip her up. I only thought about gaining benefits for myself and even forgot the original intention of joining the Magic Association."

"I actually doubted Lady Aura! I suspected she was using an empty account to trick me!"

"How could such a selfless and kind person deliberately fool us?"

"I, Winton, am not worthy of being a human! I am even worse than the selfish and despicable demons!"

“Not worthy of being a human being!!”

Winton was in tears on the street, attracting the attention of many passers-by.

It took him a while to calm down and wipe away his tears.

The look in his eyes was completely different from the cloudy and narrow one before.

Winton walked into the carriage with his head held high, and the ambition of his youth was rekindled in his chest, now over fifty years old.

In the past, there was no choice but to curry favor with the nobles and powerful, but now there is really a minister who is willing to risk everything to go against the corrupt upper class of San Lorenzo.

Then Winton might as well become a sharp sword!

Follow this minister and change San Lorenzo into a blue sky.

-

That night, in San Lorenzo, at Count Byron's palace.

Byron was in his office, looking through the income and expenditure details of each store.

Suddenly, I heard a knock on the door. It was the servant delivering a letter.

Byron suddenly became suspicious and looked out the window. It was dark.

Who and what would choose to deliver the letter in the middle of the night?

He, Byron, was not like Count Conrad, who would receive some shady bandits and wandering magicians.

I usually invite nobles and high-ranking officials from all sides in an open and aboveboard manner, and I always use money to pave the way. There is nothing I cannot accomplish and no one I cannot deal with... Does replying in the middle of the night mean you are rejecting me?

The money given out is not enough, or what?

"What letter?"

"It was sent by Financial Officer Winton from the Magic Association."

"I asked him to do what I asked!"

"No, Lord Winton seems to mean to disown you."

"What do you mean?"

"Lord Winton said that he felt guilty and had no face to accept your money anymore, so he returned all the gems you gave him."

"Bring the letter."

Earl Byron took the letter from the servant, opened it on the spot and began to examine it.

In the letter, Winton gave a detailed account of the reasons why the new minister invested all the donations in the construction of the college, and also donated more than ten years of salary - and said that after today, he would no longer visit Earl Byron.

Byron frowned and put the letter away.

Winton's stance is very clear and his position is firm.

Even if he spent more money on bribes or tried to persuade with kind words, he probably wouldn't get a response.

"Who exactly is this new minister?"

"Power and money can't move her. Is she really a saint?"

"No... Even a saint has desires. She is simply inhuman!"

Byron paced the room in circles, lost in thought.

Earlier at Conrad's banquet, the new minister's fearless fighting had already made many nobles wary.

But it would be fine if she was just a magician who was not afraid of the powerful. No matter how strong she was, she was just one person. With the Empire, she and the Magic Association headquarters kept each other in check. Even if she provoked a great magician, it would be impossible to kill them all.

As long as they don't kill them directly, the nobles have countless ways to bypass the Minister of the Magic Association and seduce, bribe, and manipulate his subordinates.

Then, no matter how strong Aura is personally, he will not be able to change the situation where the old nobles of San Lorenzo are supreme and have all the new magicians in their hands.

But now... that guy's methods are really good, and he is also very courageous. He gave up his power and wealth, and invested most of his wealth into the construction of the association, buying the hearts of the subordinates in the association...

He gave up being recruited by the powerful and gained the qualification to make decisions.

He also gave up his property to show his determination to reform, which won the support of the people.

If this continues, it will be disastrous!

That group of magicians was difficult to control, especially the new generation. The idea of ​​aristocracy supremacy had not yet taken root in people's minds. In the academy, those young people did not respect anyone except the teachers who were truly superior to them in magic level.

I heard that recently in the academy, commoner magicians have been disrespecting nobles, looking down on the level of noble magicians, and doing things like riding on the heads of noble magicians to show off their power!

Earl Byron had a bad premonition, and so did the other nobles.

This remote San Lorenzo is almost one of the few holy places for the nobles. Now in most cities of the empire, the status of magicians trained by the Magic Association is rapidly improving.

Although this is also due to the invasion of demons, there is a great demand for magicians in the war, and their status is naturally high.

But in the foreseeable future, even if the war ends and peace comes, those untouchables who have learned a few tricks will sooner or later have an equal status with them!

In cities outside of San Lorenzo, this trend is already underway!

I heard that a mere second-level magician dared to disobey the orders of the nobles! Relying on the weirdness of magic, he is not afraid of the armor and sword of the knight!

The nobles in various regions were resisting the development of the Magic Association in both open and covert ways, but because the highest level of the empire had a contract with the Magic Association, they had no way of refusing to allow the Magic Association branches to be stationed in various cities.

There is no way to fundamentally prevent the development of magic.

Then they can only find another way, and let their children occupy the resource allocation quota of the Magic Association, so that those magicians who are born as commoners will not get the opportunity to leave San Lorenzo.

As long as there aren't a large number of high-level magicians, the supreme position of the local nobles cannot be shaken.

However, in order to carry out the above plan, it is necessary to establish a situation where there is corruption within the Magic Association branch, and the nobles can insert their confidants into it and interfere with the selection of magicians.

Now, with the new minister in office and minus their interference in the Magic Association, they have regained the hearts of the people, and the situation is no longer on the side of the nobles.

It is no longer possible to secretly manipulate the magician selection.

You can only rely on your hard talent.

But if you really want to use hard talent to fight... Magical talent is random and is not passed on by blood. Even if you summon those powerful magicians to marry into your family and change the bloodline of your family, it will be useless.

"What should I do?"

Chapter 118 They must be very afraid of me~

The next night, the nobles of San Lorenzo gathered quietly.

After three attempts: Count Conrad's dinner, the assassination of a wandering magician, and the donation from Count Byron, they discovered it.

Neither the power he once prided himself on, the military force he secretly wielded, nor the all-powerful gold coin offensive could move the new minister in the slightest.

She is just like a demon that is separated from human society, possesses powerful personal force, and has no interest in money!

All the means that the nobles had used against their fellow human beings had never worked once!

"That person, she doesn't want wealth, she doesn't want power, what does she want?"

"do not know."

"What should we do? Just sit there and wait for death?"

"Don't panic. As long as you are a human, you must have weaknesses. There are no humans without desires in the world. If there really are humans, how is it different from demons without emotions?"

"Yes, yes, there must be something she cares about!"

"........."

The nobles who had gathered together fell silent again.

If such a difficult character had appeared in the past, the nobles would not have been so anxious and exhausted from thinking hard.

If you can't solve something with your brain, just use a sword.

Just like the former Deputy Minister Barrit, that young, ambitious, second-level magician who cared about nothing but his ideals, wasn't he also raised into a fat pig by them after his leg was broken and became one of them?

If a perfect person really exists, let's smash her and let her be imperfect.

But this time it's different——

Before they could make a move, the person on the other side was already smashing the table; when they stretched out a hand, the person on the other side chopped off every finger with terrifying efficiency.

The wandering magicians who obeyed the nobles in San Lorenzo are now just a pile of dirt and bloodstains.

As for the hope of using power to make the Continental Magic Association headquarters make concessions... emmm, Count Conrad was beaten half-crippled and has been lying in bed unconscious ever since - the empire watched a count being attacked without saying anything.

The Continental Magic Association pretended not to know about this and continued to carry on as usual.

The nobles of San Lorenzo were afraid that if they tried again, it would not be the table that would be broken next time, but their brains.

I can only abandon the sword and use strategy to deal with that person.

No... you don't have to deal with her. As long as you find her weaknesses... understand her brain, her desires... you can find a way to co-exist.

We are all human beings, so it is certainly not more difficult than trying to understand what animals are thinking.

"I've got it!" Count Byron suddenly spoke.

"What?" The other nobles looked over.

"name."

"name?"

"She doesn't seek wealth and glory, she must seek eternal fame!"

"What name do you want?"

"Then Aura must want those students she taught to praise her and spread her good name everywhere, so that all magicians and humans will know about it!"

"That's consistent with what she did!"

"Since she wants a good reputation, we will give her a good reputation!"

"How to do it?"

"Let each place nominate young people for admission based on their reputation. Can she still reject the voice of public opinion? We will hire the graduated magicians with high standards and pay them a lot of money, and keep them in San Lorenzo. Can she still reject the path chosen by the common people themselves?"

"What a plan!"

"As long as we are patient, don't go against her, spend more money, and start outside the Magic Association, she will eventually help us train talents."

"rational!"

"If you do good deeds for the sake of reputation, you will definitely suffer for your reputation, haha~~"

The nobles raised their glasses and celebrated loudly for finally finding the weakness of the new head of the Magic Association.

-

With the donation from Count Byron, and an inexplicable windfall that was several times more than Count Byron's, the Magic Academy in San Lorenzo was renovated and expanded a lot to accommodate more magic apprentices.

——Aura was also puzzled about the origin of the unexpected wealth. Perhaps other people in the Magic Association branch saw her say that she would donate all her salary, but found out that her salary was zero. They were so angry that they gathered together to donate some money to mock her.

Otherwise, why does Aura always feel that everyone in the association looks at him strangely recently?