"This meeting is boring. ”

Finally came out of the conference room, and Rorschach spat at Luo Li, his time was wasted so inexplicably, it was a crime.

The whole meeting, presumably Rorschach's side reported on what had happened recently, asked a few questions on the other side of the etiquette, and then the legislators announced (revealed) the latest arrangement.

Procedural, bureaucratic, and with little enthusiasm on both sides, Rorschach noticed that there were members of the inner ring who were playing mobile phones and playing online games under the table.

As for why Rorschach noticed......

"That familiar game BGM, phew! garbage games ruined my youth! Some time ago, it was it that cheated Isabella's (me) annual bonus. ”

However, Rorschach, who is the object of questioning, can be distracted at will, and the councilors above don't care, those who should read books read books, and those who should snore continue to snore, and this inquiry meeting is also formalized to the limit.

This is not surprising, and in the eyes of many people, it is also a fact that, with a few exceptions, mages are the profession furthest from bureaucracy.

Spellcasters who pursue the truth and truth, and occasionally follow by the true incense, are always full of curiosity and exploration of the unknown and uncertain, lack interest in what is known and familiar, and lack the most basic patience for the bureaucratic process to go through the motions.

Now that the parliamentarians are so together, they are all patiently going through the process, in fact, just to ....... Don't take the blame.

Yes, not to blame, this is the essence of this meeting.

The first smuggling before, the investment was huge, and the councilors and magic organizations all rushed into a lot of resources and manpower, and then harvested ....... Infinity tends to zero.

The first batch of spellcasters who went there totaled 2,000 people, and the existing (living) mage apprentices were about 600 to 700, and there is no exact number for the reason, that is, too many were abducted to the lower planes and disappeared in the mountains and wilderness.

There are about 360 people who can be sure to survive and are safe, and more than 100 of them have suffered from various PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), and the specific reactions are varied, which has become the subject of research by prophecy and psychological mages.

Some of them are either trembling and unable to move when they hear the footsteps of the giant beasts, or they are so frightened that they charge madly to death (Survivors of the Silong Mountains), and some are dizzy when they see seawater, ditches, and bathtubs (Survivors of Savi Bay).

Some of them make all kinds of sharp points as soon as it gets dark, shouting "they are coming", "they are coming to eat us", "I am not delicious at all, go find the XX next door, his fat is particularly fat" and other nonsense.

And the most are indeed "I won't go out after beating me to death", "Is there any job where you can make money from home?" I have a job, and I'm going to guard my house".

Although Isabella has been complaining that "they also deserve to be called otaku?, just a bunch of cowards who are scared by real life, my generation .............. Ahem, Isabella's complaint is too long to expand, at least this coined term has been accepted by the archmages, and now they are having a headache about how to treat otaku.

"You can consider electrotherapy, I remember reading on the Internet before that electrotherapy is a special medicine for otaku, the thunder season of the Great Harlet Wasteland is there every year, the cost is very low, just tie people to the lightning rod, as long as you don't die, regular lightning strikes are said to promote the development of magic power, they are all second-order spellcasters, you shouldn't have to worry about being electrocuted...... Well, I shouldn't be dead, probably not. ”

Rorschach sincerely made suggestions to the big guys, but he was unexpectedly (just his accident) vetoed, and was also said "The pink hair is cut and it is really black", "It is worthy of that person's XX" and other bad words, which made him depressed for a long time, obviously he is not pink hair (?).

There is no need to list them, these typical examples fully illustrate how failed the first phase of smuggling was, and the only few spell types are being studied, but everyone knows that this will not only fail to produce results in a short period of time.

And even if you don't invest in a large-scale investment in the first phase, you can safely recover these abnormal samples at a later time, and in the long run, the return on investment of these returns is too low.

Unfortunately, this fact was pointed out by some archmages in the opposition in public and in the press, and incidentally accused these archmages of not treating their apprentices as human beings and consuming them without any profit....... This is too typical of mage-style accusations, and it puts a lot of pressure on the council.

"There can be sacrifices, how can there be no victims on the road to explore the truth, but sacrifice is valuable and rewarding after all, otherwise it is not just throwing money in the toilet, and it seems that the decision-makers are a group of fools with no investment vision. ”

The facts have been laid out in front of you, the first phase of smuggling has failed, all the investment has been wasted, only where is the Harait Great Wasteland where there are still a few hundred people who can be used, and two warbands can be formed or something.

It is impossible to return the cost of the first phase of investment, and the bigwigs of the Council of Truth are not distressed by this loss at all, but the headache is that some mage forces use this as a reason to put pressure on the council.

Most of them are marginal people, lone wolves, small and medium-sized associations, and they used to be big clubs who held these things in their hands, and they didn't catch up with the share in the first phase, and now they want to get on the ship, and they also want to occupy a good position as a helmsman and boatswain, so naturally they can only pull people off the ship.

The Council of Truth also knew that it was impossible to completely leave Anthollen open to ordinary mages and independent societies, but the preliminary work still wanted to be in their own hands, and there were too many people and too many ideas in bits and pieces, and the development trend became uncontrollable.

The pressure from the outside world is very great, and the strength of the small and medium-sized associations and scattered people who can't eat meat is also very terrible.

"Is there 12,000 people in total? six times as many as in the first phase? ”

The stakes are very high, and we don't want to give the opposition parties more reasons to attack, so we have recently held a series of joint meetings and discussions, and issued documents that make people hypnotic when they look at them, and turn the second phase of the program of action into a collective decision.

Heh, of course, there is a big difference, the collective decision-making is successful, the credit is the leader, and others also have the merit of the dragon, in case of failure, as long as there is no mistake in the procedure, there is no violation in the middle, and the step by step action is recorded, it is also an "acceptable accidental loss, understandable error in judgment, inhuman sin." ”

The archmages who hate bureaucracy the most have been forced to bureaucracy one by one, and Rorschach also knows how much pressure they have.

"Heh, so in this way, since it's a collective decision, it's a mess, and I'm okay?"

[Nonsense, are leaders and clerks the same, collective decision-making, they make decisions, you go to do things, they have meetings, what does it have to do with you?]

Rorschach almost cried on the spot, which was too bullying.

"Ahem, the greater the power, the bigger the pot...... The ability is great, the responsibility is great, but the credit is also great. We believe in your ability to give us a perfect return. ”

"Well, come on, it's up to you to fill out the form, and it's definitely not that I have a personal grudge with your father to dump the pot on you....... Can you find a few of our old people who don't have a grudge against your father? Don't worry, none of us are grudges. ”

In an instant, Rorschach cried and lost his face, and he remembered that there were all super bosses here, with psychic links and conversations or something, which were not safe at all.

"No, no, no, we didn't read minds, that's so immoral, only your stepmother liked to do it back then, and we know it's just because of you...... Said again. ”