Looking at the ring in Arad's hand, the several wizards present were a little strange, but they still took it as they said.

Ivina fastened the ring on her ring finger as Arad had instructed, and after a small amount of magic activation, her consciousness seemed to sink into the endless depths of the ocean.

In a trance, Ivina felt as if she had forgotten something, and then a burst of shouts rang in her ears.

"Your Excellency...... Your Excellency! ”

Evena opened her eyes suddenly, surrounded by seven or eight poorly dressed people, looking at her with surprise on their faces.

"Are you awake, Clerk?" It was an old farmer who spoke.

"Clerk?" Ivina hesitated for a moment, her mind still a little foggy, but she soon remembered that she had been selected by the council to become a minister in the eastern realms of the kingdom.

Today is my first day in office, and I am patrolling the territory with the townspeople, and then I volunteered to help everyone farm, but I was probably too tired and fainted.

Strange, with your own physical fitness, you shouldn't be right......

Ivina frowned, but before she could think about it, some doubts were dispelled by the enthusiasm of the townspeople, and she quickly collected her emotions and began her life as an officer!

In the first week, Ivina didn't do anything rashly, but spent all her time in contact with the townspeople and learning about the current situation of the village.

Like the rest of the reclaimed kingdoms, everything here has an air of old-fashioned and dilapidated violation, and the local lords, who often oppress the poor, have just been hanged from a crooked-necked tree at the head of the city just a week ago, leaving behind only a group of peasants who can only read a single word and can only farm and hunt all their lives, in stark contrast to the vibrant and ever-changing city of oil and oil.

And there are not a few local people who devout believe in [Ella], after hundreds of years of propaganda by the church, the people have a strong defense against wizards - this is still the result of the fact that the musket team has solved the local oppression of the people, and has used all the means such as suing for land division and fighting local tyrants.

Her mission was to dismantle the faith of these people and free them from the old days of starvation and clothing.

Feeling the weight of her responsibility, the first thing Ivina did was to get all her people to stop growing wheat!

After all, now that the price of food has reached its lowest point in history, with the magic bread, it can be expected that it will be difficult for the price of wheat in the kingdom to rise back to its original level for a long time to come.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the parliament was buying grain for a copper, the wheat would have been worthless now!

So it has to change!

After a visit, Ivina soon learned that the hanged viscount owned a wine-making estate specializing in a unique bluefruit ale that had been selling well among the nobility.

In view of this, Ivina immediately called several winemakers at the winery, carefully asked if this blue fruit can be cultivated on a large scale, and what the yield will be, and after receiving a satisfactory answer, she began the first step of her village transformation plan - when planting wheat this autumn, the original wheat planting will be changed to blue fruit, and more wineries will be established.

Ivina believed that the realms, who had entered the workshop and received a higher salary, would never be limited to eating a few pieces of bread, and that this blue fruit ale had a unique taste that was not found anywhere else, and that was their advantage!

And now that the price of wheat is very low, they can take advantage of this in turn, and they can get enough brewing materials for a short amount of money!

Evina's idea was undoubtedly good, but it was met with spontaneous resistance from a large number of townspeople, and no one knew if she would be able to sell it and make the expected profit after growing so many blue fruits.

If it fails, won't everyone starve to death?

The townspeople, who have been farming for generations, are not very willing to make tentative changes, and the townspeople are very satisfied to get back the land from the nobles, no matter how low the price of food is, at least growing wheat will give them a bite to eat!

In this regard, Ivina did not bother to say much, and persuaded the family to do so, but directly rented all the fields with a lot of money, and promised magnificently.

"Everyone does what I say, if I make money, I want seventy percent of the gains, if I don't make money, all the losses are mine!"

With the guarantee of real money and Ivana's promise, the strategy of replacing crops was barely implemented.

To make sure nothing goes wrong, Ivina even hired an elemental wizard who is proficient in farming to use magic to fertilize the land, remove insects, and increase yields.

Ivina's bold and radical strategy undoubtedly achieved extremely good results, transforming a poor village into a production base for blue fruit ale, with the participation of everyone in the village, responsible for all aspects from planting to winemaking to sales, and Evena successfully passed the assessment to become the local mayor!

However, the girl soon discovers that after becoming the mayor of the town, not only has the trouble not decreased, but has become more, and Ivina is almost too busy to stop, and every day there are all kinds of strange or strange things that need to be decided by herself.

One day it was a farmer's camel that was stolen, and the next day two villages were fighting over water......

These were minor issues, but the most troublesome thing for Ivina was when an official wizard got into an argument with someone in the tavern and killed a townsman with magic!

According to the laws of Parliament, a murderer is sentenced to death or imprisonment for more than twenty years, depending on the severity of his actions!

The special thing about this time is that the killer is a wizard, and he belongs to a great wizard's school, whether the newly recruited affairs officer or the village chief is advising her, it is just a poor person, there is no need to judge a wizard for this trivial matter, annoy a school with a great wizard, and let the other party accompany some money and the matter will be over.

The sorcerer is the master of this kingdom, just like the noble lords of the past, and he also wields powerful magic, which is far from being comparable to a poor man in terms of value and status.

"No, no, a wrong trial will cause the trust that the council has built up so hard to build among the common people and make more wizards emboldened...... Thus dismantling the order of the entire kingdom! Ivina said firmly.

This is not only a question of who is more valuable and more important in life, but also whether the majesty of the Kingdom law has been lost!

In view of this, Ivina took matters into her own hands and arrested them...... Trouble also followed, and many wizarding schools have spoken out to accuse her of fighting against a wizard for the life and death of a poor person, and some councilors even proposed to remove her as the mayor of the town.

In order to cope with these harsh accusations, Ivina can be described as emaciated, but she resisted the pressure, and finally got the approval of the parliament, and tried her in the royal capital, sentenced her to fifteen years of forced labor, and paid a large amount of consolation.

Although Ivina felt that such a punishment was a bit too light, she also understood that it was impossible to want the other party to die, and at least enough money could save a family.

With these achievements, Ivina was soon promoted to the mayor of the Iron City.

Then her incompetent and long-lost brother came to the door and begged her to open the door so that she could be elected in this year's civil affairs exam.

Ivina looked at the familiar and unfamiliar face and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Where did you get your brother?

……

At this moment, outside the examination room, all the answer sheets have been sent to the conference room, and they will be judged and corrected by the eight great wizards.

The basic questions in front are okay, they have standard answers, and they only need to consider right and wrong, but the application questions in the back are different, there are no fixed answers, they have to evaluate whether the other party's decisions are effective, they are very subjective, and there is an endless stream of discussions about each strategy.

For example, a great wizard is very appreciative of Monroe's answers, this kind of resolute and ruthless method against the enemy is not suitable for being a clerk, but it is still very good as a searcher.

The most debated issue is naturally the punishment of shamans for killing the poor, and the eight great sorcerers are almost divided.

The resources consumed to cultivate a full-fledged wizard are not a small amount, and those with magical talents must be selected from among the people, and after several years of learning and drinking, the source of magic power has less than a forty percent chance of promotion.

Not to mention relying on magic, a wizard alone is equivalent to dozens of labors and combat power, which is much more important than a poor man in every way, and it is impossible to resist it!

"The kingdom is the kingdom of wizards, how can a wizard be judged because of a poor person, in my opinion, according to the standards of the previous wizard land, a fine of twenty is about the same!" The Great Wizard Sanchez said with a sneer.

He believed that as a minister of the kingdom, he had to understand this, and that those who made judgments, or even severely punished wizards, had to carefully consider their abilities.

"You might as well take a look at this answer!" Raphael didn't mean to make any more excuses, and directly handed over an exam paper.

Sanchez pursed his lips and took it, anyway, the value of a wizard was far from being comparable to that of a poor man, but after a few casual glances, his brow couldn't help but furrow.

The answer to the question of whose life is more valuable, but from the perspective of upholding the majesty of the law of the Parliament, argues that if this matter is not handled impartially and the wizard is easily spared, it will cause a very bad negative impact, damage the trust that the Council has built up with great difficulty among the common people, and even cause similar things to happen frequently......

"Whose answer is this?" Sanchez pondered for a long time before he asked.

"It's a witch named Evena." Raphael replied briefly. "I think her answer sheet is very good, and it should be the first paper of this time!"

Several great wizards also nodded their heads after reading this answer sheet, and Ivina gave relatively reasonable answers to most of the application questions, and her style was also very in line with the previous decisions of the council.

Or maybe the other party deliberately learned about the various strategies they implemented in the kingdom before giving a similar answer.

The last question, which can be considered from the level of upholding the law, is already a cut above the others.

Even Sanchez, who advocated a lighter punishment, could not say anything against it.

While Raphael and the others were discussing each exam paper intensely, Lynn was watching how the formal wizards who had been pulled into the realm of magic would respond to the questions they had just answered.

How many people are duplicitous, and how many are able to stick to their principles.

Some things are much harder to do than to talk!

Vittorio, who was also an invigilator on the side, said with emotion. "It's also thanks to you that you can convince the [Secret Law Society] to use the small universe in this kind of place!"

Lynn smiled and didn't reply, it was the first selection exam for the council, so naturally she had to pay attention to it.

Not to mention that the kingdom is now full of a large number of spies from the church, and there are not a few internal oppositionists, and the selection of senior administrators must be very cautious.

The principle of this magic is somewhat similar to dreaming, the sorcerer will be in a state of vague memory in the field of magic, and it will have no effect on the great wizard for the time being, and the official wizard also needs to use the arcane ring as a medium.

And the rest of the poor people don't have to work so much, and they can be solved by a dream guidance spell by those psionic wizards.

Compared with taking the test while conscious, the answers measured by this method are obviously more credible, and everyone will face their choices in a dream, which can basically eliminate the possibility of lying.

Of course, this is not a one-and-done move.

After all, people will always change, and the other party may be able to maintain the original intention in three or five years, but in the long run, in the face of the temptation brought by power, there will always be people who can't hold back, and then it is necessary to establish a relatively perfect supervision and reporting system.

Anyway, he has tried his best to do his best in this election exam, and even secretly added some materials to it to expand the computing power network of the brain, and then he made an unexpected discovery.

Among the seventeen wizards who participated in the exam, there was one person who was particularly special, and that was Monroe!

Zhi Brain couldn't decipher his mental fluctuations at all, which made Lynn very surprised, you must know that even Haroff, Vittorio and others can't resist the mental power of Zhi Brain to decipher, and Monroe is just an official wizard!

Is there some kind of strange treasure in his possession, or is someone providing him with some kind of shelter......

Lynn's mind couldn't help but have information about Monroe.

The other party belongs to the White Dove School that was destroyed by the church, and followed the Wizard Mutual Aid Association to the City of Fire Oil with Evena, and his performance in the Wizard Academy was mediocre, and it could even be said that he was a little poor, but Ivina's grades have always been very good.

Zhi Brain has no problem deciphering the girl's mental power, but because the time is too short, there is no way to spy on her memory.

Lynn pondered for a moment, and it seemed that she needed to be more noticed......

(End of chapter)