When the Crowley family messenger appeared at the door of the Gini House, Colma was teaching the North District wizards that received the award this month several special uses of Buffy's brain-relief agents - for North District wizards who need to use external forces to release magic, this powerful awakening agent that can enhance brain power is very useful.
When Catherine informed her of the guest, she did not hide her surprise at all.
As a famous diehard family in the Wizards Council, the surname Crowley is not very well received in the North District of Beta Town. They are the extremely cruel traditional wizards. In order to successfully carry out a certain experiment, they are not afraid to force the North District magicians to hand over the bloody magic materials.
After the birth of the North District Wizard, this family was also a representative of the type of wizards who were most hostile to the North District Wizard. On the surface, it was out of the deeply rooted magic discrimination tradition among the old-school wizard group, but in fact it was because the North District Wizards had mastered a certain level of magic and seriously violated the interests of the "Crowleys".
The simplest example is that the lack of a sufficiently cheap trickster to do the collection work, the price of silenced forests has more than doubled in recent years. This magical plant that has the ability to strengthen the communication between wizards and nature is widely used in potion production, incense and many magic experiments. This alone will bring dozens of jade coins to the Crowley family every year.
“—What are they doing?”
The great wizard from the North District narrowed his eyes, held his left hand in front of his chest, raised his right hand, and rubbed his chin unconsciously - and then she immediately realized that in facial divination, this action meant ambiguous. Specifically, when the Crowley family sent an envoy to visit, it was okay to see it or not.
Although the conclusions of facial divination have always been known for their ambiguity and inaccuracy.
But Colma had a strong premonition that her face divination result was correct today. This aroused her interest and became more and more curious about the purpose of the Crowley envoy.
“—Let him come in.”
While speaking, she waved her hand and signaled the North District wizards next to her to put away the notes on the table and stood by her side to listen. Catherine also respected the order and lowered her head and retreated. Soon, she brought a thin middle-aged witch back in.
“—Oz Crowley, on behalf of His Excellency Alest, greets him, Vice Dean of the Fringe College of the First University, and His Excellency the Great Sage of the North District.”
The Crowley's messenger shook his chest and bowed, his expression and tone were as stiff as his tone.
Colma had reason to suspect that he had gargoyle corpse oil on his face before coming to Gudiao Street, so as not to show contempt or ridicule in front of him, and then be slapped to death by himself.
As for the Alester mentioned by this messenger, he is the ancestor of the Crowley family, a member of the Alliance Great Wizards Conference, a top wizard who has lived for hundreds of years. He is more famous as the president of the Golden Dawn Society, an organization dedicated to the study of mystics, magic and evil gods, which is ancient and dangerous.
"I am fine."
Colma Dalala accepted the greeting, which made the messenger's expression stiffer. Colma did not intend to continue to greet and asked directly: "—What's wrong with Alester asking you to come?"
Oz Crowley lowered his head, slowed down his speech a little, and said sincerely: "——The Crowley family hopes to cooperate with the Fringe College to open a laboratory with ritual magic and mystics. The related costs are all borne by the Crowley family, and the annual laboratory allocation amount is promised not less than 300 jade coins... At the same time, we hope that outstanding graduates from the Fringe College can actively participate in the maintenance and management of this laboratory."
While speaking, he respectfully handed over a project cooperation agreement with both hands. When he opened the first page, he saw a highly binding magic contract. The conditions were exactly the same as what he had just said. There was even a blank supplementary clause, which means that if the Fringe Academy had other requirements, he could fill it in directly. At the end of the contract, the public seal of the Crowley family and the private seal of Alestre had been used, which means that as long as there is one person in the Crowley family living, the contract is valid.
Staring at the magic contract in front of him, Colma's expression was serious.
I immediately knew that things weren't that simple.
She is not a little Karami who doesn't know anything.
The Fringe Academy has just been newly established for a few years, let alone research power, even if many of its faculties are provided by other colleges, there are no big shots in the academy in terms of mysticism or ritual magic.
On the contrary, the strength of the Crowley family in these two research directions is well-known throughout the Wizards Alliance. In other words, this sounds like "ordinary" is nothing more than a proposal to jointly establish a magic lab between a family and academy. In fact, the Crowley family contributes money and people, and then provides relevant research materials to help the Fringe Academy build a key magic lab from scratch.
As the North District Wizard and the vice president of the Fringe Academy, Colmaco knows how important these wizard families think about magic knowledge. Not to mention sharing magic knowledge with the Fringe Academy, even the first university is difficult to pick something out from these conservative and diehard wizards.
Moreover, as far as she knows, the Crowley family has a school-level key laboratory in the Institute of Applied Magic. The research content is also related to occultism and ritual magic. In other words, this cooperation agreement is equivalent to the Crowley family's self-decreasing specifications and relocating its own key laboratory from the First University to the Fringe College.
Will the school agree to what they do?
Has Aleister been taken over by a North District wizard?
Today the sun doesn’t come out from the west!
These uncontrollable thoughts flashed through my mind, but Colma's seriousness on his face did not reduce at all, and his attitude became more and more cautious: "—Did Your Excellency Alester say why?"
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Because the other party was indeed here to give a big gift, she was a little polite in her words and used the word "Your Excellency". While asking, her fingers huddled in her sleeves were also quickly calculating, trying to find out why this unreasonable thing happened.
Oz Crowley raised his head and replied seriously: "——The ancestor said that this is the Crowley family's guidance of the "Witcher Code", conscientiously implements the basic policy of unity and friendship of the First University, deeply understands the concept of building the First University, consciously practices the important thought of equality and mutual assistance, and makes a small contribution to the realization of lasting peace and stability in the magical world."
I believe you!
That old man didn’t have this kind of cognition and realm!
Colma's original very smooth calculation was interrupted by this answer. Her little hands clenched into fists in her sleeves, and she worked very hard to restrain her urge to complain.