Victor, the vice president of the Half-Blood Association, had already dressed himself as solemn and was about to receive a distinguished guest.

Or rather, because of the "explosive" news from the Ernest family last night, he didn't sleep all night.

I simply started preparing for today's work as early as possible.

In fact, today he is mainly doing one thing -

Reception of President Jacques Rancière.

The birthplace of the Half-Blood Wizards' Rights Protection Association is actually in Graham, but in recent years, due to "business needs", the headquarters has been moved to the capital of the United Kingdom.

As the chief helmsman, President Jacques Rancière is naturally based there, and rarely appears in Graham unless there is an emergency.

Recently, there have been many unexpected situations.

First of all, the Guild "inadvertently" discovered a super genius who was not only able to use a wand that could only be used by a formal wizard without difficulty as an apprentice, but also had a high degree of control over magic and a good fit with a wand.

Most importantly, his image is exceptional!

So, after learning about this, President Jacques had the idea of leaving for Graham.

Because he happened to have acquired a unique magic that only apprentice wizards could learn not long ago, and only apprentice wizards with great talent could learn.

At the same time, the top wizarding schools that have taken a lot of effort to apply to-

An admission place at the Imperial Royal Academy also requires the selection of a suitable student.

This place doesn't actually bring much real benefit, but it is the first step towards the association's influence finally becoming a top wizarding school.

There is a first step, and if it goes well, then naturally there is a second step, a third step......

This path is important.

In the wizarding world, although there are many schools, the children of the top wizard families and the super geniuses with unlimited potential are basically concentrated in a handful of top academies.

They represent the top level of the wizarding world in the future.

So it's very important to be one of them.

However, although the idea of coming to Graham was aroused by the discovery of a genius, President Jacques did not have to rush to come.

After all, there is almost a month left before the start of school this year.

However, the incident that happened immediately within the association made him not have the heart to delay-

Some wizards do not agree with the Society's current philosophy, and choose to carry out a plot to frame them by killing children.

Although this matter did not succeed, if it is not handled well, it will inevitably lead to further turmoil within the association.

When President Jacques Rancière heard of this, he immediately set out for Graham.

However, although this matter is very serious, after all, the association has initially controlled the situation, and it is not an urgent matter that burns eyebrows.

So even though he had already moved, he wasn't too impatient, and just bought a ticket for a ghost train, a common tool for wizards to travel.

In this way, it will basically only take him two or three days to reach Graham, and he can also take a look at the scenery on both sides along the way.

However, halfway through, that is, last night, he heard another great event happening—

In the Ernest family manor, a group of mysterious wizards want to attack the pure-bloods as an opportunity to further divide the relationship between pure-bloods and half-bloods!

Although this matter was also prevented, the undercurrent behind this matter had to make him feel important.

As a result, the ghost train, which was originally very fast, became slow in the eyes of President Jacques.

Eventually, he decided to fly a flying broomstick and rushed to Graham overnight.

The flying broomsticks currently on sale are mass-produced models imported by Blackstone Marine Trading Company and have a speed limit.

However, Lord Jacques is good at enchantment and alchemy, and the broom he uses is an enhanced version of his improved version, which is extremely fast.

So when Vice President Victor arrived at Graham's train station, dressed up, President Jacques had been waiting here for a long time.

President Jacques was a thin old man, with gray hair thinner than Vice-President Victor, and no beard on his face, but that didn't make him look young.

On the contrary, the age spots on his face are particularly obvious.

"You've arrived early?"

Seeing the thin old man sitting on a bench in the square in a black coat, the bald Victor hurriedly stepped forward.

"Why didn't you notify us?"

"I'm not in a hurry, what are you in a hurry."

The old man replied with a smile, as if he had learned some information, and his face was completely impatient as before.

As he spoke, he fanned the wind with the top hat he was holding in his hand, and the sparse hair on both sides of the bald head swayed slightly, which was very conspicuous in the morning light.

"Then you should also give me notice in advance, I'll come over early." Victor grumbled.

However, the old man ignored him, but looked at the dense flow of people around him with emotion.

"I haven't been to Graham for many years, but this place is growing fast."

……

Graham is one of the most important cities in the south-east of the United Kingdom and one of the major transit hubs on which the Kingdom depends.

The daily cargo throughput here is staggering, and the people who come here go down to the various regions of the kingdom and go up to the surrounding neighboring countries.

Even the existence of Far Eastern races on the other side of the ocean is simply eye-opening.

"With that lady here, the pace of development can't slow down at all."

Seeing the president's calm face, Vice President Victor was no longer impatient.

Sitting on the bench, his expression was very envious, "Blackstone Company...... There's money. ”

Blackstone's full name is the Black Market Marine Trading Company, and the lady of the Chelsea family is behind it.

And this company is not so much a trader as one of the driving forces behind the British colony overseas, and the normal transaction is only a part of the company's interests.

It can even be said that the substantive interests are no longer the pursuit of the company, and the invisible control and influence are the main direction of Blackstone's development.

Years of expansive development have allowed this influence to spread throughout the world, as well as into wizarding society.

Based on this, Isabella Chelsea can become one of the big names in the wizarding world at a "young age".

And a veteran of the wizarding world like Jacques, the president of the Half-Blood Association, is of course well-connected, has friends all over the world, and his own strength is even more powerful.

But as soon as he arrived at Graham, he first had to take the initiative to visit "Miss Isabella", who was good enough to be his granddaughter.

"Will the President go back to the residency first, or will he go to Chelsea Manor first?"

Vice President Victor then asked the question.

"There's no need to rush."

The little old man said casually: "The time I agreed with my wife is noon. ”

"So you're going back to the Guild residency now?"

Vice President Victor said, "It just so happens that there is a lot of backlog that you still need to deal with. ”

"It's seven o'clock now."

When President Jacques heard this, he said angrily, "I'm one hundred and twenty-seven years old, and you want me to die of exhaustion at work?" ”

"But since you're all in Graham, isn't it a waste of time to sit here......"

The bald Victor responded with some grievances, not understanding what the little old man in front of him was thinking.

I was in a hurry to rush to Graham overnight, but when I arrived at the place, I looked leisurely......

Could it be that his old man got some good news, so the things that he was in a hurry to deal with were not in a hurry?

"It's not a waste of time."

President Jacques smiled and said, "About three hundred meters to your left, there is a young man dressed in a woman's clothes. See? He's just funny. ”

Young people in women's clothes?

Hearing this, Vice President Victor looked in the direction.

As a result, I saw a young lady with brown hair and blue eyes sitting on a bench not far away, looking down at the newspaper in her hand, looking like a normal passer-by waiting for time.

Isn't this just a woman?

How can you say about young people in women's clothes?

And, what is the difference between her and other passengers waiting for the train to arrive?

"At the banquet last night, there should have been a few escapes from the net."

Just when Vice President Victor was puzzled in his heart, he heard the old man next to him say:

"It just so happens that I'm still wondering what kind of gift I should give when I see that lady at noon."

You mean......

The balding Victor was stunned for a moment, but before he could think about it, a hand covered with age spots poked out from his side and beckoned to the brown-haired woman not far away.

The fair lady sitting quietly on the bench suddenly raised her head, but before she could make any other movements, her body suddenly began to twist!

Then, in the blink of an eye, it turned into a fat orange cat with brown-yellow hair.

Its body has changed, but it seems to still maintain its original thinking, and even when it finds that its image has changed drastically, it unconsciously lets out a terrible scream, and then turns around and is about to flee in a hurry.

However, the strange thing is that it ran in the opposite direction, but in the end it turned around and came to the feet of the emaciated old man.

In his mouth, he even took the newspaper he had read before.

"The Felix family is very fast."

Taking the newspaper from the orange cat's mouth and patting the other man's furry head, President Jacques handed the newspaper to Victor, who was staring at him with wide eyes.

"Look at the propaganda department of others, how professional it is."

Reaching out to take the newspaper, Victor didn't look at it, but sighed with a smile on his face: "Your transfiguration technique is really eye-opening." ”

"It's just a small trick."

Jacques Huizhan waved his hand and said: "There is nothing to praise, relatively speaking, this newspaper is more important." ”

"What do you mean?"

The first thing Victor does when he wakes up every morning is to read the newspaper, or rather read the news in the newspaper.

So in fact, he had already read the newspaper in his hand called "The Wizard's Daily Morning Post".

The headline on the front page was the same thing that happened last night, but it focused on the wisdom and foresight of Kevin of the Felix family.

Others, including the important supporting role "Egger", are only slightly mentioned on it, and not even have a name.

This made him quite angry.

Because in his opinion, although Kevin was in charge of last night's incident, what Iger of their association did was equally important.

There is basically no publicity in the newspapers, and it is too much to not even give a name!

"The Archipelago Weekly, the Imperial Daily, Pravda, and even the Royal Northern Daily have all mentioned it."

Victor then said, "But in the eyes of outsiders, this matter has nothing to do with our half-blood association. ”

"You're just a tendon in your head." President Jacques glanced at him.

"Now that the Felix family has pushed that Kevin to the fore to publicize that he has sabotaged a plot by an unknown enemy to separate pure-bloods and half-bloods, then the Felix family will inevitably investigate this matter in depth."

"This involves the assassination case a while ago, and the Chelsea family will not let it go either."

"So?"

"The two wizarding families have stepped forward to maintain the relationship between pure-bloods and half-bloods, and there must be some fanfare next, isn't that a good thing?"

"You mean, the ...... thing within our association"

"The problem will not be solved, but at least it will have a reassuring and deterrent effect, and there should be no accidents in the short term."

With that, President Jacques stood up instead.

"But now that the gifts are ready, there's no need for us to sit here any longer."

So why didn't you come to arrest him before, but waited until now?

Victor wondered, but the president would do something incomprehensible every once in a while, so he didn't bother to ask.

After calling a taxi and getting inside, he turned to say, "For Egger, you ...... What do you think? ”

"What do you mean?" The old man raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

"Word has spread through the wizarding world about what happened last night."

Vice President Victor said in a worried tone, "Although Iger is not mentioned much in these newspapers, it is impossible for some local pure-blood families to ignore him, after all, his talent is ......."

"Are you afraid that he will be absorbed by those pure-blood families?"

"I have some disagreements with old Delane on this matter."

Victor didn't answer directly, but instead said, "He thinks that whether Egger stays in the guild or not, he is also a member of our half-blood, and for the sake of his future, we shouldn't influence his next choice." ”

"You have the opposite opinion?" President Jacques asked.

"Sort of."

Victor said helplessly, "But I really can't think of what to do to keep Egger." ”

Although the Half-Blood Association is very influential in the overall half-blood class, the Half-Blood is a group of people who cannot be put on the table in the eyes of pure-blood wizards.

Therefore, with the talent of "Egger", whether it is "worshiping" under the command of a large family, or marrying a small and medium-sized family, marrying a "noble lady" as a son-in-law.

It's better than staying in an unpopular organization like the Half-Blood Society.

Egger has been a newcomer to the association for two days, and he has no feelings or nostalgia for this place at all.

In this case, how stupid do you have to be to choose to stay and share the joys and sorrows with their group of "bitter haha"?

"As Feng said, no matter where he goes, he's always one of our half-breeds."

President Jacques did not seem to have such concerns, and was happy to hear it.

"So no matter what he chooses next, I'm not going to stop him."

"Are you really willing to let this genius go?"

"Forty years ago, I took in an apprentice, and I didn't mention the name, and that was a sad thing."

President Jacques said, "His talent should not be below Egger, especially when he saved a young lady of the Lefali family on an outing, so it wasn't long before he received a solicitation from the Lafali family. ”

"You let them go?"

"No, in the name of my teacher, I refuse to let him marry that Miss Lefali."

President Jacques said, "It's complicated, but for the most part, I thought about it then and I think about it much the same way you do now. ”

"And then?"

"Then he betrayed me, he thought I had deprived him of the right to pursue his love and future, and he was so resentful that he wanted to poison my food......"

Speaking of this, seeing Victor's complicated expression, the old man patted him on the shoulder happily.

"So, there are some things that can't be forced, it's good that we show enough attention, and the rest, let him choose for himself."

said so, but seeing that the next genius under his nose was about to fly away, Victor, as the vice president, still felt very depressed.

However, seeing the indifferent look on the face of the chairman sitting opposite, he didn't say anything after he stopped talking again.

The carriage fell silent as the carriage continued down the street, eventually coming to a halt in front of the association's apartment building, which was only a wall away from the train tracks.

Victor was the first to get out of the carriage, but before he could greet the elder down, he saw a familiar figure approaching quickly.

"Colin Levine? What are you here to do? ”

Victor frowned at this.

Colin Levine is a middle-aged wizard with a fat belly, and the two used to be colleagues and have a good relationship.

It was only later that the pot-bellied wizard ran out to set up his own door and created a Rausch Meteorological Association, and the relationship between the two sides fell to a freezing point.

In Victor's opinion, the organization he created was actually a competitor to the Half-Blood Association, and Iger was almost robbed by them not long ago.

So now that he saw the president of the association appear in front of him, he naturally didn't have a good face.

"I made an appointment with President Jacques, and I have something to discuss."

The middle-aged wizard said.

"Then you won't be waiting in a doorway, will you?"

Victor replied with a gloomy face, "Let others see it, as if they think our association is rude." ”

"Of course."

When the middle-aged fat president said this, a smile appeared on his face, "I actually want to ask President Jacques to introduce me to Mr. Iger Wilson of your association. ”

"If you want to see Egger, why don't you just go in and find it yourself? As for bothering our president? ”

"Of course not, that would be rude."

The fat wizard shook his head and said, "Mr. Wilson did our association a great favor last night. ”

Busy?

Victor was stunned.

Was there anything else going on last night besides the banquet?

"What's the big deal that deserves your grandeur?" President Jacques, who slowly stepped out of the carriage, was equally strange about this.

The two sides didn't mention it when they contacted each other before, but they said they wanted to discuss the problem about the hapless boy Arthur.

So he was just as surprised by that.

So the next thing the old president heard was something that surprised him very much.

"Mr. Wilson, last night for the sake of friendship, sponsored our association's Arthur 300,000 grams of ghost dust."

The middle-aged fat president said with admiration: "300,000 grams, how generous!" Who is more worthy of our association's grand treatment than such a good person? ”

Three hundred thousand?

Victor's face was stunned when he heard this, and then his face was annoyed, as if he had suffered some great loss.

President Jacques also raised an eyebrow when he heard this, and glanced at a room on the second floor of the apartment, and his previous thoughts changed instantly.

"You're right."

He nodded, "That's a good guy to be treated with care." ”

……

When he said this, the old president couldn't imagine that the good man Merlen happened to dream of him at this moment.

Or rather, the future of him.

And before that, he had dreamed of many people, including Mrs. Chelsea, and himself.