Demi-human Girls Completion Manual Chapter 1683 - 125: Bird

"Have all your desires truly been satisfied?"

"Can you really accept the presence of other women around him?"

"You know, one day he will escape again."

"... "

"Buzz buzz."

Elizabeth’s golden eyes suddenly flickered, and the scene before her began to focus again, as if everything before was just idle thoughts while she was daydreaming.

Yet those thoughts silently sank into her heart, keeping her from recovering from her dazed state.

"Queen Elizabeth?"

"Ahem, Your Majesty? What do you think about this?"

At the negotiation table in front of her, several important figures from the World Magic Association, who had come all the way from Kado, noticed Elizabeth’s distraction. Their expressions became somewhat awkward, and they lightly coughed to remind the Queen that she was being disrespectful to them.

Elizabeth’s eyes then gradually shifted up, on either side of the negotiation table were experts from the World Magic Association and the Nali Magic Society, negotiating the future rights of the Nali Magic Society. In fact, rather than personally negotiating, Elizabeth was more like a host, expressing Nali’s stance.

On top of that, the documents she held were not even related to the current negotiations, but rather books from the Gedelin Royal Family concerning "Royal Marriage Ceremonies."

However, this didn’t mean she was completely unaware of the negotiations. On the contrary, she had memorized everything that morning.

Having a photographic memory was considered only a basic function for her prosthetic eye. If she wanted, she could even silently give hints to these elderly figures from the World Magic Association, effortlessly winning the negotiation.

But Elizabeth did not do so, as over the years she had exercised restraint in using her prosthetic eye, understanding the principle that governing could only be done through proper channels, not through shortcuts.

She could make those who saw her personally succumb to the brilliance of her eyes, but there were countless people she couldn’t see who needed to be managed and dealt with, countless matters her power couldn’t cover, and the use of her prosthetic eye wouldn’t suffice.

Having seized power through shortcuts, she knew better than anyone the dangers of such methods, and she had a deeper understanding of this aspect than Dexter. Her prosthetic eye always followed a clear usage standard.

Thus, she gently closed the marriage etiquette book filled with notes and spoke softly,

"I wouldn’t intervene in negotiation matters; after all, this is between Nali and the World Magic Association. But from my personal perspective, the first, third, seventh, and twenty-first clauses of your new cooperation treaty are totally unacceptable for Nali. They are a humiliation and a huge blow to Nali’s mages."

"Well... Your Majesty, we also need to consider efficiency in the distribution of academic resources. Once Mr. Helsen leaves, there won’t be any recognized academic authority within Nali. If we continue to supply the academic degree lists and resources according to previous arrangements, it may cause actual waste. As members of the World Magic Association, this change in clauses is evidently necessary for the further development of human magic."

"What do you mean by actual waste? According to this perspective, isn’t that bunch of zealots in Kado wasting academic resources? Spending all their energy on praying and serving the Mother Goddess every day. How come a Nine-Circle Magic can serve as an annual academic report?"

Mention this, and the Nali mages got angry first.

The academic circle in Kado has been rotten and inefficient for ages, yet you haven’t lowered their academic resources allocation. But you’re quick to lower it for Nali, especially during such a sensitive time after Mage Helsen’s departure. Such targeting couldn’t be more obvious.

You say it’s for human magic; I spit at that, anyone can see it’s a political pressure from the Western Continent aimed at Nali’s ever-growing power, under the guise of attacking the academic sector. Such an ugly display is truly shameful.

"There’s no need to rush, everyone. Kado has its own national circumstances, and facts have proven that last year Kado’s annual magic in mineral extraction has rivaled old Twelve Ring Magic. The efficiency is evident to all..."

"I curse you..."

"Enough!"

Before the Nali mages could extend their warm greetings, Elizabeth raised her hand languidly, stopping these mages who had been away from politics for long.

These matters of shamelessness, after all, they have seen too little of it, and that’s when the Golden Palace had to step in. Otherwise, if sanctions from the World Magic Association were truly implemented, every mage in Nali would curse.

With Elizabeth increasingly valuing the Cardinal and undermining magic, Mage Helsen’s departure completely destroyed any chance of Nali rebuilding an independent magical academic structure in the short term. However, she couldn’t give up the interests of domestic mages, so she had to play this unfair persecution game with them to some extent.

"Did you say that after Great Mage Helsen’s departure, Nali’s magic world is no longer worthy of previously allocated academic resources?"