"Oh, by the way, what is the situation of your commission this time, why did even the director of the branch resign?" The day after Cook and Highlander returned, Fenris approached them with a depressed face.

As an intelligence processor at the headquarters, he was most afraid of these things, once the director of a branch resigned, then he had to choose someone else to serve as the director.

The point is, where can this be found casually? Make sure that person is a second-order ability, but also make sure that he has enough abilities to take on the position of dean.

Alas...... Headache......

"It's a bit of a hassle to say, but all in all, did you find the person?" asked Highlando, putting down the papers in his hand.

"Hmm...... Anyway, there are a few candidates, do you want to take a look?" Fenris put a few materials in his hand on Highland's desk and motioned for Highlander to take a look.

After a cursory glance, Hailanduo scattered the information on the table with a little headache, and said, "You better ask Rio about this, I'm not very good at these things." ”

Fenris, Fenris couldn't help but smile wryly, it was easier to say, it was not clear where that guy had run away now.

"Oh, by the way, someone sent you a letter during the time you were out, I'll put you in a drawer, you can see for yourself. As if remembering something, Fenris pointed to Highland's office drawer before leaving.

Hylando, on the other hand, frowned a little suspiciously, opened the drawer, and found that there was indeed an envelope inside. With curiosity, Hylando opened the envelope and browsed carefully.

"yes, speaking of which, the national competition is almost here. Hylando patted her head in realization, and glanced at Cook on the side with some ill will.

After feeling a strange gaze, Cook couldn't help but shudder, and an ominous premonition arose. Lowering his head, he swept around with a bit of a thief's eyebrows.

What's going on? The hunch just now...... Cook's gaze quickly swept over everyone, and he was secretly depressed in his heart.

"Little Cook, my sister has something to talk to you about, okay?" Behind him, Hylando's kind and delicate voice came out, making Cook's whole body stiffen.

Grunt. Cook swallowed his spit so hard that he didn't dare to turn around.

"Don't be so afraid, I'm going to talk to you about the national competition. ”

"National competition?" Cook suddenly jumped up from his seat when he heard these words, his face full of incredulity.

Of course, he knows what the national competition is, and it should be said that in the empire, people who don't know about it are almost extinct.

The so-called national competition is held every three years, and it is a competition that is only open to young people, the age is limited to under twenty years old, and the participants are basically high school students from various high schools in the empire, so the national competition is also known as the college entrance examination for the ability.

The students who can make a name for themselves in this ability competition will basically be able to enter the upper echelons of the empire in the future.

And those who can win the top few abilities will be able to become representatives of the younger generation of the empire in the future, and compete for glory for the empire on the stage of the global competition with the representatives of the other two empires.

If he can win the first place in the global competition, then that teenager or girl will not only be crowned with the honorary title of the first person of the younger generation, but will also be directly included in the highest organization of the empire, and the future prospects can be said to be bright.

But...... Why did Sister Lan tell me this...... Do you still want me to race?, Cook looked at Highlando, puzzled.

Although there are very few young second-order abilities, there will definitely be national competitions, not to mention global competitions.

Just like their Laia Empire, the youngest second-order ability in history was successfully advanced at the age of seventeen, although there is only one person, but those who can advance to the second order at the age of eighteen or nineteen are not the kind of near-verging level, basically there will be a few perverted alternatives in every national competition.

And the annual national competition will also have a great impact on the empire's second-order ability list, after the end of the competition, the empire's current record of one hundred and thirty-six second-order abilities will be updated immediately, and at that time, there will still be only one hundred and thirty-six people on the list.

This is also another way for the empire to record second-order abilities in addition to updating people's ID information.

And the champion of the year is always those people, in such a situation, what is he doing as a first-order ability......

"How's it going, are you tempted? Do you want to go and have a look?" Highlandoin kept encouraging Cook, but Cook was unmoved.

"No...... I didn't have the slightest desire to participate. This is the truest thought in Cook's heart.

Just kidding, he's only sixteen years old, what sixteen-year-old would go to this competition, isn't that purely a cannon fodder in the past?

"Well, don't be in a hurry to refuse, you can participate in this session first, just exercise yourself, anyway, in three years, you can still participate, maybe you will already be a second-order by then." ”

"Hmm...... So I don't think it's impossible to go back in three years. Cook said very seriously, his clear eyes making his determination clear.

"Really?"

"Don't go!"

The strange silence made the atmosphere in the whole office a little strange, Fenris, Duke, and Manton, at this time, they were all stretching their necks, staring at this side, their favorite thing was to watch the excitement.

"Hmm...... I know the principal of a school, and the students there are all sons and daughters of rich and noble families, should I arrange for little Lisa to go to school there?"

Cook's footsteps took a sharp step back, and his whole handsome face became solemn.

"Sister Lan, how can little Lisa go to that kind of corrupt aristocratic school? In the entire imperial capital, only Candace Women's Academy is the most suitable for her!"

No...... That women's college, after all, is also a college of the eldest lady, and it also belongs to the aristocratic college...... That's not what you're concerned about...... Highlander already has no way to take Cook's sister.

"But when I talked to Lisa about that school that day, she was very interested?"

"No...... Impossible!" Cook's face began to turn slightly pale, and in order to convince him of this fact, he might as well ask him to fight a demon seed.

"Oh, it's time for the wonderful. "You keep your voice down and don't let them hear you. "Are you stupid!

The three of Fenris exchanged ears with each other, and their expressions became more and more excited, and each one of them was flushed like a wild dog in heat.

"Would you like to talk to Lisa on the phone?" said Hylando, abruptly suggested, a very pertinent proposal.

Cook, as if he had been woken up by ice water, took out his phone in a panic and was about to make a call.

"Little Lisa was begging me to send him to that school that day. Highlando's sudden chuckle caused Cook's hands to freeze in the air.

"Please, Sister Lan, can't I go to participate! Don't let little Lisa go to that kind of school, okay? Little Lisa is so cute, what if someone plots against her?" Cook hugged Hylando's thigh, snorting and crying.

Ah......h Highland's eyes seemed to have lost their lustre, and she looked at Cook, who was crying, as if the whole world had collapsed.

Forget it, it's good that the goal has been achieved, so that I can also explain to the teacher. Hylando looked at the letter in her hand, folded it, and put it back in her pocket.

"Hey, do you understand what this is?" "I don't know, I don't understand. "Little Lisa...... Is it that little Lori from yesterday?"

The three of them began to mumble again, looking at each other and finding that they were all confused.

What is this? Although it is quite satisfying in terms of entertainment effect, what is this inexplicable sense of exclusion?

"What about little Lisa's school?"

"Well, well, I'll help you choose the cutest school uniform and the best match for Lisa's school, so can you take your face away and wipe the tears from your eyes. ”

"Really?"

"Really!"

……

In the evening, Cook walked happily on the quiet streets, and even hummed a brisk song, jumping up a few steps from time to time, and the feeling of joy and happiness exuded by his whole body was so happy that even the wild cats and dogs on the side of the road could not bear it, and dodged away.

Finally, after turning the last right-angled corner, Cook came to a villa, the villa is full of romance and ** temperament, the round arch window and the corner of the stone masonry are more incisive and incisive display of this romance**.

This is a villa owned by Old Man Hal, Cook temporarily lives here, which is equivalent to renting a house, and he still has to pay a certain amount of dragon wheel coins to Old Man Hal every month.

It stands to reason that such a villa, even if it is rent, should pay a lot of dragon wheel coins, but the old man Hal only charges him one hundred dragon wheel coins every month, which is too cheap.

Sometimes, even Cook thinks that Old Man Hal is too good to him, and it can be said that he takes care of him meticulously.

However, there are conditions, and Cook has not forgotten that phrase until now.

"You must advance to the second order before you are eighteen years old. ”

Cook's original joy became very heavy when he thought of this, although in every national competition, there will be those young second-order abilities, but don't forget, it is a national super-large-scale competition, covering the entire Laia Empire! Among them, the number of young abilities alone is definitely not less than a million, but those who can advance to the second order before the age of twenty can exceed one finger in each competition?

Not to mention before the age of eighteen! Is that any different from trying to make him work miracles?

But! I have to do it, even if it's so hard, I have to do it! Now it's not just my happiness, whether it's for Lisa Dai or Betty!