Chapter Seventy-Seven: Before the Meeting
The current structure of the entire Magical Council, in Edward's setting, is named with the word "Council" with a strong European civilization. However, in fact, what is practiced is somewhat similar to the people's congress system of our Great Celestial Empire.
Among the many members of the entire Magic Council, there are two types: executive members and ordinary members.
Ordinary parliamentarians must at least have the strength of formal mages, they have the right to propose and vote in the parliament, and they are a "people's congress deputy".
But the executive councillors are not simple, they are all real powerful members, in charge of their different factions and have the actual power to appoint officials of the Ministry of Magic in various European countries, which is roughly equivalent to the Politburo Standing Committee members in my Great Celestial Dynasty and the party leaders in the West are fused into one.
The Speaker of the Magical Council, our Lord Edward, has the same power as the President of the Celestial Empire or the German Emperor during the First World War in Europe within the framework of the Magical Council.
Of course, although in the provisional code of wizarding circles promulgated by Edward, every spellcaster above the official level can be elected as an executive member and an ordinary member, in addition to the necessary group prestige and leadership, what is more important is their own personal strength.
After all, as a full-level mage with strong personal strength who can break the army alone in the Middle World, or those strong people with a higher professional level of mages in the future, they will never accept being led by an ant weaker than themselves, right?
"Democracy and freedom" can be used as a slogan, but in the wizarding world, there is definitely no politically decisive influence in the Muggle world.
Okay, turn the subject.
Not to mention that in the main hall of the Magic Council, there is a battle between the "Silver Star Order" and the "Golden Dawn".
At this time, Edward was holding an internal meeting with Helga and others in the executive council conference room next to the main venue of the council hall.
As an Edward who has lived for more than 20 years in a country like my Great Celestial Empire, which is very good at organizational building, he still has a lot of experience in the work of meetings.
First of all, before holding such a large-scale meeting, our big boss Edward, needs to unify the opinions of the entire leadership.
The current leadership of the Council of Magic has five Executive Members, Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar Slytherin, who directly lead the Golden Dawn; Edward's follower, the dark necromancer Rasmussen who signed the deed of sale, he represents, of course, the crazy "Silver Star Order"; The former sword-wielding mage Godric Gryffindor and the black-haired girl Rowena Ravenclaw are in charge of thousands of spellcaster apprentices who are still in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and among those apprentices, there are those who have joined the "Golden Dawn" and the "Silver Star Order", so he is ostensibly neutral in the "Silver Star Order" and "Golden Dawn" battle, but because they are Helgar's followers, they are actually secretly inclined to the "Golden Dawn".
"Ahem!"
Looking at his elder sister Helga, who was beside him, he forcibly pulled the embarrassed-looking girl Rowena to whisper, biting his ear, and Edward deliberately coughed seriously a few times.
"I said sister, I'm in a meeting!"
Coughing several times, the girl in front of him pretended not to hear, and Edward couldn't help but say to Helga through mental power.
Helga looked up and rolled his eyes at Edward, but ignored him.
"Sister Helga, didn't Artoria come?"
For his genuine fiancée, a knight girl with golden dull hair, Edward still has a lot of worries in his heart.
Hearing Edward ask about Artoria, Helga looked up.
"What is she doing with a knight about our spellcaster?"
Helga asked rhetorically, and then, with a hint of deliberate contrivedness in her voice.
"Yo! Sir Edward Merlin, you remember that you had a fiancée! ”
"What the hell is going on, Sister Helga."
Edward could hear something wrong in Helga's voice and hurriedly asked.
"What do you see what this is?"
She called Alice, and soon a series of incomparably clear three-dimensional images appeared in front of her, with dozens of gossip newspapers and the headlines on the front pages of news websites.
"Playboy and friends go in and out of nightclubs, accompanied by countless beauties".
"Iron Man" and his companions are happy to tempt young models to wear school uniforms.
Stark's Pageant
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A few drops of cold sweat quietly appeared on Edward's forehead, and his serious face was instantly embarrassed. You know, these news are all gossip news after he and Tony Stark's rich nightlife in New York was secretly photographed by some tabloids.
"Well, Sister Helga, these are all the gossip tabloids that spread out of the mess."
"Tony and I are just playing on the spot······"
Before Edward could finish, "Smack! With a bang, Helga slapped the table hard, and the silver mage's powerful physical strength, which had been strengthened by magic and exceeded the ordinary several times, shook the table.
"Tony Stark isn't a good thing!"
Her voice was extremely sharp at the moment.
"I've asked Alice to check his profile for me, he's a death monger and a playboy!"
"You are not allowed to associate with him in the future!"
I wanted to have a serious meeting, but I didn't expect the painting style to turn into a family ethics drama, and Edward couldn't help but sigh at the impermanence of the world.
Stealthily glanced at the scene, at this time, Rasmussen, Salazar and others, all of them were old monks with eyes and noses, and I didn't know anything.
Well, a little bit of an eye! Edward nodded with satisfaction, but saw Sister Helgar staring at him.
Edward's head grew again. Before separating from Helga, he had checked whether Helga had secretly used surveillance magic on his body, but he didn't expect that, hey, a wise man must make a mistake in a thousand thoughts! He only paid attention to Helga's magic, but he did not think of the ubiquitous electronic networks of modern society.
"Alice, hurry up and help me clear the more detailed information from these damn tabloids!"
Edward called Alice in his mind with anticipation, and in the absence of more detailed evidence, he was sure to fool Helga, a "tigress" who did not know much about the social activities of young people in America.
Alice, a magical intelligent program that has matured into a personality, now has a powerful cyber attack capability that comes with being an intelligent program, but it is just the homepage of several tabloids and gossip websites, which is naturally a piece of cake for her now.
To Edward's surprise, Alice's mental projection did not immediately appear in his mind as usual, but under his repeated urging, a teary-eyed figure appeared.
The goblin's big watery eyes stared pitifully at Edward in his mind.
"Father, Alice, Alice doesn't want you to get close to those strange women!" There was an unspeakable grievance in her soft voice.
Our dear Edward's expression at that time was such "embarrassed"
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After Edward repeatedly promised Alice not to go to those places in the future, with Alice's help, Edward finally fooled Helgar, saying that it was just a way to communicate.
Then, turn the conversation back to the point.
"The 'Golden Dawn' proposal is indeed very feasible."
"It seems that these natives of this world are quickly integrating into the group we created."
"Salazar Slytherin, you're doing a good job!"
Salazar Slytherin stood up and gracefully bowed to Edward, and after getting him to move from his educational work at the Academy of Magic to leading and organizing the Golden Dawn, the young apprentice who was originally a nobleman of the Arthurian throne quickly became a fish in water, and he was also amazed by the great social talent he displayed in dealing with those Muggle families.
"Thank you for your recognition, Lord Edward, this is what I should do!"
"So, what about the 'Silver Star Order'?"
Edward turned his head and looked at the black-robed middle-aged man sitting across from Salazar.
The silver strands in the original hair of the dark necromancer Rasmussen Anderson, and the jet-black corpse spots on his face that had been infected with corpse qi by using necromantic magic for many years were also disappeared after he broke through the level of the mage of the Silver Ring.
He stood up······