Ian hurried away with the frozen Joseph, followed by another councillor, Bridget. Only Lear, Lareina and others were left. The surroundings were in a mess, with blackened marks of burns everywhere. What was supposed to be a happy event for Lear almost turned into a funeral, but Lareina's expression was very happy. "You, the Speaker, don't seem to have much authority." Li'er looked at Lareina and said. In front of Lareina, Joseph wanted to kill this senator who was personally appointed by Lareina. It was obvious that the other party did not take Lareina seriously at all. Hearing Li'er's words, the smile on Lalena's face froze for a moment, and then she sighed helplessly, "Joseph is in charge of all the fire mages in the council. This is a powerful force, so he is so unscrupulous." "What about you? Have you, the Speaker, been sidelined?" Lear asked with a chuckle. "Not really. At least the arcane mages support me." Lalena shook her head. "Okay, let's talk somewhere else. Let's leave here first." "Aren't we going to deal with this mess now?" Lear glanced at the messy hall. Only the spiral staircase was intact.
"The Arcane Tower is built with special materials that contain magic power, and it is also carved with arcane arrays. It will absorb magic power and repair itself. Things here can be left to others to handle." Lareina explained, and without stopping, she walked up the spiral staircase. Lear and the others didn't say anything else and followed behind. "The Arcane Tower has a total of nine floors. Each floor is very spacious. The sixth floor and the spaces above it belong to the Kalia royal family." Lareina explained as she walked, like a tour guide. Everyone came to a magic circle on the second floor. The spiral staircase only led to the second floor. Lareina led Li'er and others up to the magic circle. The magic circle was activated, and the stone slab on the ground engraved with the arcane magic circle rose up, like an elevator, carrying everyone upwards. "This is the parliament's arcane levitation array. Floors above the second floor can only be reached through this levitation array." Lareina said again. Lear looked at the scene in front of him. The stone slabs under his feet emitted an arcane glow. Although the tower only had nine floors, its height was in no way less than the dozens-story buildings in his previous life. The space on each floor of the tower was huge. Except for the first floor, the other levels seem to be blessed with arcane arrays of space folding, which makes the actual space of the tower much larger than imagined. The floating magic circle climbed a considerable distance and passed the sixth floor. "From here on, it's the royal territory. Only with the permission of the royal family can the floating array reach the sixth floor and above." Lareina said, but the floating array did not stop. "Somewhere like a palace?" Lear asked. "You may think so. The Kalia royal family does not have any territory anywhere else in the royal city. The area above the sixth floor of the Arcane Tower is the palace of the Kalia royal family." Lareina nodded. The magic circle continued upwards and finally stopped. "This is the eighth floor, and this is where I live." Lalena said as she walked out of the magic circle. Leaving the magic circle, there is a huge garden in front of you. The space is extremely vast, and there is even a light source like the sun in the sky. Rather than saying that this is one floor of the tower, it is more like an independent territory. Lear followed Lareina onto the eighth floor, walked through the garden, and came to a villa, or rather a palace. Everyone entered the villa and came to a large empty room. Lareina threw herself on the sofa beside her in a very ungraceful manner, as if she had released all the pressure. Lareina only feels comfortable in her own home. Lear looked around the room in front of him. It looked like a reception room, with a huge table and chairs surrounding the table. In addition, there was a sofa for resting that protruded from the balcony of the room.
He looked for a while, and finally his eyes fell on Lalena. Looking at the lazy Lareina, it was the first time he knew the true nature of the Speaker of the Arcane Council. In his previous life, he thought she was a strong woman NPC. Li Er found a sofa and sat down. He coughed lightly and said, "Chairman Lalena, I spent a lot of effort to help you deal with Senator Joseph just now. How are you going to repay me?" Lalena came back to her senses, she sat up straight and looked at Li Er, "I will not break my promise to you." "As long as you are willing to help me win the next Speaker election, I will agree to all your requests." "All?" Lear raised his eyebrows. "Everything!" Lalena affirmed. "I want all the spells of the Council to be open to me." Lear began to state his conditions. "Okay." Lalena agreed immediately. "From now on, as long as I don't do anything that harms the parliament, the parliament must help me unconditionally." Lear continued to add. "Okay." "There is one last thing. I need the spell that Mena researched, but the agreement between us is invalid." Lear stated the last condition. When she heard this condition, Lareina hesitated for a moment and looked at Mena beside her. She hadn't seen her daughter for a long time. She looked in good spirits. It seemed that Lear had taken good care of Mena during the time he had taken her away. Lalena was very satisfied with Mena's appearance. She thought that during the time when Lear and Mena studied magic together, some feelings would develop between the two. In Lareina's imagination, Lear, who could create such a powerful spell as Arcane Counter, must be an arcane genius. Mena is also a genius. It is natural for two arcane geniuses to study spells together and have a common hobby so that they will end up together. As long as Lear accepted Mena, he would be on the side of the royal family of Caria. But now it seems that it is not what she imagined? Li'er didn't know what Lareina was thinking. He hadn't studied magic with Mena in the past few months. He was not an arcane genius. All the spells he created were based on his experience in his previous life and with the help of the game system. "Isn't Mena beautiful?" Lareina asked after a long silence. "Princess Mena is very beautiful." Lear shook his head. "Do you think Mena is too old? If so, I can marry Mea to you." Lareina said thoughtfully. As soon as these words were spoken, Mena and Meia's expressions changed. The former's eyes turned angry, while the latter's face turned red. "Mother, what are you talking about?" Meiya ran to Lareina. Helen, who was standing by, was also shocked when she heard Lareina's words. What did I hear? I originally thought that Lear was the gigolo that the Speaker found for himself, but it turns out that he found him for the two princesses? "Chairwoman Lareina, I already have a wife, and I don't plan to find another one." Li Er shook his head and clearly refused. He really didn't want to get involved with more women. Milia was enough. When the Blood Cult really stood on the stage, he also wanted to give Milia a wedding. Listening to Lear's serious tone, Lareina sighed. She could hear the seriousness in Lear's tone. "Okay then, the agreement is invalid. If Mena develops some magic, I will ask her to teach you." Lalena agreed to Li'er's request.
Li Er smiled and said, "Thank you very much. I don't have any other conditions. If you need me to do anything in the future, please tell me, Mr. Speaker. I will do my best to help you win the election." "Well, can you tell me about the current situation in the parliament? There are also three other members." Lear asked. "You have also met the other three councillors, Joseph, Ian and Bridget. Joseph has recruited most of the fire mages in the council, and Ian has recruited many frost mages. Bridget has not interfered with the power of the council. She has learned a wide variety of spells, including fire, frost, arcane, and even some unpopular spells." Lalena introduced them, "In addition to them, there are some older generation extraordinary wizards in the parliament. After my father passed away, they also withdrew from the power class of the parliament, but recently Joseph has shown signs of winning them over." "Does the parliament's electoral system include the votes of other wizards in addition to the votes of the members of parliament?" Lear asked again. "Yes, but the votes of the members of parliament are more important. Now that Joseph has joined forces with Ian and Bridget, they tend to let Joseph become the new Speaker." "That means you can only get two out of five congressman's votes?" Lear glanced at Alvin and Maya. "Yes, if you become a member of parliament, my votes will be equal to Joseph's, and then it will be time to evaluate the votes of other mages above the beginner level," Lareina replied. "How many votes did you get from those wizards?" Lear asked again. "About 40%, but there are still some mages who have not joined the team." Lalena replied. "So you are at a disadvantage now?" Lear roughly understood the current situation. The councillors' votes were evenly split, and the focus now was on the other mages on the council. "How do you usually get votes for yourself?" Lear asked another question. "Campaign for votes?" Lareina was stunned. "It's to promote the policies that I will implement after I become the next Speaker." Li Er explained patiently. Seeing Lalena's obviously puzzled expression, his expression suddenly became strange. "You haven't solicited votes before, have you?" Lalena was silent. "I roughly understand what you mean, but what policies can the speaker of the parliament have? The Arcane Parliament has always followed the will of the goddess to spread the belief in arcane, and there is nothing else." After hearing Lareina's answer, Lear was speechless. As the speaker of the parliament, when the new speaker was elected, Lalena didn't even ask for votes for herself? Isn't that a clear admission of defeat? "How did you become the Speaker of the House of Representatives now?" Lear suddenly asked a question. "My father gave it to me," Lareina replied. “Not through elections?” "Election is a new decision proposed by Joseph in recent years. Since more than half of the councillors agree, I accept this proposal." "So, the original system of the speaker of the parliament was inherited by your royal family, but now Joseph has changed it to an election system?" "Yes." Lear was completely speechless. The Arcane Parliament was equivalent to the War Church of Knox, and the Speaker could be said to be the leader who ruled Kalia. But Kalena actually let Joseph change the system of succession of the Speaker? "You didn't veto Joseph's proposal? Like a veto or something." "No." Lalena shook her head awkwardly. "That was ten years ago. At that time, I didn't really want to be the speaker. The position was forced upon me by my father. After a few years, I found it very troublesome. It was then that Joseph proposed the election system for the speaker."
"So you agreed?" "Yes." Lalena nodded. "I don't think the identity of a speaker is a big deal, but in recent years I found that Joseph even inserted his hand into the entire Kingdom of Kalia." "What he wants is not only the position of Speaker of the Parliament, but also control of the entire Kingdom of Kalia!" Lareina's tone became a little angry. After listening to Lareina's description, Lear didn't know whether to laugh at Lareina's stupidity or naivety, as she casually accepted the Speaker's reform of the succession system. Maybe Lalena was still young ten years ago, but it seems that Lalena should have been in her twenties ten years ago, but she still naively accepted Joseph's proposal. The fact that Lareina can become a semi-saint level mage shows her talent in the arcane, but her wisdom as a leader is obviously not up to standard. Li Er leaned back on the sofa helplessly, his right hand on his chin, "So what are you going to do next?" "Go and win over those retired old wizards? Ask them to help get votes?" Lareina asked tentatively. After Li'er said that the electoral system could win votes, Lareina also reacted. All the previous votes were handled by Joseph, including her 40% support rate, which was also obtained through Joseph's statistics. If Li'er hadn't reminded her, she would have foolishly believed that she had been too perfunctory in her work as Speaker for so many years, which led to not many wizards supporting her. It now appears that Joseph was probably canvassing for votes. "This is certainly what you need to do, but besides this, have you ever considered any other way?" Lear showed a meaningful expression. "what?" "For example, preventing Joseph from electing the Speaker." Lear said lightly. "That is, make Joseph disappear from this world." "..." Lareina was silent. She had indeed considered such a plan, but gave up in the end. She didn't want to win the election in this way. If Joseph died, everyone would think it was her doing. She hoped to get the approval of the parliamentary wizards instead of gaining the right to rule by force! Looking at Lareina who fell into silence, even though Lareina did not answer, Li Er knew Lareina's choice. The opponent obviously doesn't want to win in this way. Li Er shook his head. In the world of "Law" where power is supreme, there is actually no need to follow the rules too much. Unlike the real world, the Arcane Council believes in the arcane, and powerful wizards will naturally be sought after. For the strong, rules are just used to restrain the weak, and Lareina is obviously not a weak person. Moreover, Lalena is originally from the orthodox royal family of Kalia, and Joseph is the pest who broke the rules! (End of this chapter)