In the end, Lin Suo still couldn’t manage to get Meinehoer to try meat.
As he said, it was difficult to find the right size.
There were a few octopus people they could have tried, but Meinehoer himself was unwilling.
Legend has it that Sea Giants often breed with deep-sea octopus people, but after all Meinehoer is human, with deep-rooted aesthetic concepts, finding it hard to appreciate the octopus head.
(Sensitive word, intentionally misspelled.)
In the same situation, the Sea King in the Black Robe wouldn’t hmm...
Lin Suo had no choice but to give up on the beauties from the Ice Plain of the North Realm and moved back to the hotel.
The next day, he exchanged contact numbers with Meinehoer and left Mysterious Alley.
The communication device is a result developed by the Goblin race, resembling a wristwatch, and it can project the torso image of the communicator on the other end, costing more than a thousand magic stones.
It was the most expensive item Lin Suo purchased in Mysterious Alley.
The advantage is that it can record an unlimited number of numbers, and the communication range, except for the far north Moon Peak and different spaces or special environments, enables delayed communication.
Better and cheaper than the communication devices developed by Goblins.
Goblins and Giants, originally the same race, are now in a state of split, both leaders in the field of steam technology and mechanical research.
Each has its own characteristics and representative works.
Golden City—"Lalaye."
Exiting the bizarre Mysterious Alley, seeing normal people and things, Lin Suo felt momentarily dazed.
He quickly recovered.
He prepared to report to the Padolon Wizard Association and submit his membership application.
Once done, he could go to the headquarters of the Judgment Committee to find Layston Martin.
The Padolon Wizard Association, ostensibly, has the responsibility of maintaining continental peace and mediating conflicts between nations, providing a platform for formal wizards to exchange with each other.
Behind the scenes, however, it’s still all about intrigue and deception; however, they adhere to an unspoken set of rules to some extent.
Leveraging group interests as capital, and utilizing political means to obtain benefits.
Stationed are thirty-six pinnacle wizards (Ninth Ring), serving as councilors, from various countries and races.
The headquarters is located in the Dan Dong Capital.
Not only because this is the center of the continent, out of the thirty-six councilors, twelve are descendants of Dan Dong.
The president is an existence above the Ninth Ring, with a ten-year rotation, who usually doesn’t stay on the mainland.
Whoever sits in this position brings massive benefits to their backing forces, managed by the secretary general.
Thus, the president and the secretary general are bound together.
Major decisions of the association are determined by councilor vote; the president has one veto and one execution vote, which can only be used once every five years.
During the term, that’s only two opportunities to use.
The Convergence of Spheres was an execution vote enacted three hundred years ago by a president above the Ninth Ring from the Demon School.
To this day, no adverse effects have been observed.
Another key position—"Vice President!", also picks a corresponding balance figure, holding five votes, with not small authority either.
In summary, the Padolon Wizard Association is a tool for exchanging and maximizing interests.
It is also the pinnacle of power on the continent.
Besides the Supreme Council, there are also the Judgment Committee, Exploration Department, Research Department, and various schools forming their own associations.
The Council stands highest.
Judgment, Exploration, Research are medium level and generally do not participate in power struggles.
Each wizard school is located at the bottom layer, where the fiercest struggles occur, but new members of the council are often selected from the leaders of these schools.
For Lin Suo, a member of the Wild Party with the status of Viscount, joining the association is not difficult, but infiltrating deep into the camps of different schools is much harder.
Because the struggles within the General Association actually stem from their time at the academies.
Dan Dong’s Golden Academy, Ice Plain’s Extreme Academy, the Southern Suta people’s Elemental College, the Silver Star Alliance’s Starry Sky Academy, and the Chong Guang Academy of the Thousand Island Land.
These four great academies are the supreme educational institutions of the Wizard World.
As for why there are five yet they are called the Four Great Colleges, it is because the Suta people are thick-skinned and shameless, not only naming themselves after elements but also insisting on squeezing in and participating in the struggles between academies.
Even being at the bottom every year is not a shame to them.
These academy-level struggles continue after they graduate and join the General Association for advanced studies and contact with more complex wizard knowledge.
The same struggles persist.
Those commoner wizards with no background, with average performance, join the Courtyard and after a few generations, with good luck, can become new nobles.
The outstanding commoner wizards will join different schools according to their studies and become the new blood of the schools.
These people are often very welcome, and since they are trained from a young age and known thoroughly, the major Gate Valves and nobles are reassured to use them and willing to completely win them over with resources and alliances through marriage.
Only Lin Suo, an inexperienced youngster and a member of the Wild Party, is very pitiful as no one wants him.
Occasionally, a few stand out but it’s hard for them to blend into orthodox forces; they can only establish organizations with a few good friends tangled up on the outside.
Institutions like the Late Bell Church and the Ocean Academy are pretty much in this situation.
The White Tower is quite special, because Lady Rosy inherited her husband’s title, but she lost the real power and had to start over.
However, she has connections on the side of the General Association, so she mixes quite well, and her Magic Rings are all complete sets, reducing the difficulty of breaking through above the Ninth Ring in the future.
Having gone through this journey, Lin Suo has gained a complete understanding of the structure and situation of the entire Wizard World.
But he still feels that this is not all.
Considering the ability of wizards to slaughter gods, the Padolon Continent seems too small, and wizards above the Ninth Ring are nowhere to be seen.
It gives the feeling of a talent cultivation base.
And only those above the Ninth Ring can graduate.
Lin Suo has thought about the situations in other worlds, but specifics are still too early to determine.
[Padolon Wizard Association, Main Office in Golden City]
Looking at the long sign.
Lin Suo is really relieved.
The main building has only two floors, but it covers a vast area and is built very luxuriously.
Gold plating and jade embedding are not enough to describe it, and the interior is engraved with a large number of space expansion arrays, making it much larger than it appears.
All those who come and go inside are formal wizards.
Lin Suo, stepping into this stage, shows the proper attitude of a newbie, submits his Viscount identity proof to the guards, and is officially allowed inside.
Following the directional signs, he heads towards the personnel department.
He notices an interesting detail; many wizards seem to be proficient in life transformation, often accompanied by an "alien" creature.
There are small-arm-sized transformed demons.
With bat wings and double horns, a pair of scarlet eyes, bodies covered with dragon scales, with four arms carrying various items, closely following their master.
There’s also a miniaturized form of a Five-Colored Evil Dragon, a half-bodied spider servant, little tree spirits (Groot), flower elves, green fire-emitting skulls.
The most bizarre is a Death Wizard accompanied by a transformed Ghoul, with the upper body of a Dark Elf stitched onto its back, pairs of pure black eyes appearing on every part of the ghoul’s body!
Stranger than any Evil God Synthesis.
Sanity severely drops!
Lin Suo shivers, pulls back his curious gaze, and quickens his pace a lot.