A few days later.
night.
Secret room.
This is a dark and depressing secret room, buried deep underground to avoid detection. In the middle of the secret room, there was a long black table. On the table was a silver candlestick with a few candles on it. The candle was lit, and the candle flame burned unsteadily, like a dying person lingering, and the whole darkroom looked extremely dim.
In the dim light, there were more than ten high-backed leather chairs surrounding the table in the middle of the secret room. At this time, less than half of the high-backed leather chairs were occupied by people. One of the people was sitting at one end of the long table, and five other people were sitting on both sides. Everyone was wearing thick robes and hiding their faces in the hoods. They looked extremely cautious and were engaged in some kind of discussion.
The person sitting at one end of the long table seemed to have a slightly higher status. As the first speaker, he spoke to the others with a somewhat calm voice: "Everyone, please tell me about the recent situation."
After the first speaker spoke, there was a long silence - a strange and suffocating silence, as if everyone in the secret room disappeared in an instant.
After a long time, the second speaker broke the silence. He coughed slightly and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "Let me talk about it first. Well, the situation over there is pretty good. One member died, but We also recruited three new people, one of whom is very good and has the potential to be cultivated. Well, that’s it.”
After the second speaker finished speaking, the secret room fell into silence again.
After waiting for a long time, the third speaker spoke up, his voice a little sharp: "The situation over there is very bad. Four members have been lost, one of whom was the backbone who has been cultivated for many years. There are also new seeds, but they are all During the inspection, it has not yet been decided whether to absorb it or not.”
silence.
The fourth speaker said: "My place is neither good nor bad. A new member has been recruited and an old member has died. That's it."
silence.
The fifth speaker said: "My place is the same as before, there are no dead people and no new people."
After the fifth speaker finished speaking, the silence fell again, this time unbroken for a long time.
In the end, the five people who had spoken all looked at the last person who insisted not to speak.
The first speaker asked in a uniquely calm voice: "Katelin, aren't you going to say something?"
"Ha." The sixth speaker finally spoke up. It was a woman's voice, with a bit of meanness in her voice. "Do I still need to speak? Don't you all already know the situation? A damn traitor, It almost exposed me. If it hadn't been handled in time, I might not be here.
I don’t want to say more about the loss. Anyway, if you don’t support me, I can take care of myself in the future.
Speaking of which, there is actually nothing wrong with this. After all, what we have always done is to provide for the elderly. Hiding underground like a mole, hiding itself tremblingly, not daring to be exposed, for fear of being noticed. Treat an impossible thing as a goal and hope that a miracle will happen that day. Ah. "
After the woman finished speaking, there was silence for a while. The first speaker spoke slowly and said slowly: "Katelin, it seems that you are very complaining."
"Am I the only one who has complaints?" the sixth speaker, the woman, asked, "I would like to ask everyone here, after so long of following the so-called escaping rules and waiting hopelessly, don't you feel that there is any problem? What's wrong
This traitor incident has made it clear to me that if this continues, it will definitely be a dead end. Even if they are not killed by people outside, they will be killed by people within themselves. "
"Katelin, I know that the traitor thing this time made you very angry." The first speaker said, his voice remained calm and there was not much emotion. "But some things cannot be changed casually. The reason why we formulated this The rule of hiding is that because we are weak, if we are discovered by other wizard organizations, they will probably join forces to eliminate us, and then we will have no hope at all.
Now, although our strength has become stronger than before with development, it is still a bit inferior compared to other wizard organizations. Not to mention anything else, we are no match for the White Stone Tower Wizarding Association alone.
Therefore, we need to continue to be patient and continue to accumulate strength. When the time is right, when we unlock the secrets left by that great existence to us and obtain his treasure, we will have enough strength to tell others about our existence. At that time, he will be able to appear in this world openly and restore the original glory of the great existence before him. "
"I understand the truth." A mean female voice sounded, "But the question is, how long will this take?"
"A long, long time," the first speaker said, "so long that none of us may be able to see this day come true during our lifetime. Therefore, in addition to the rules of escaping from the world, the second rule of our parliament is to be patient and strictly prohibit exposure. itself, so that our parliament can continue for a long time. For this reason, we will severely punish any traitor who tries to expose our parliament."
"Severe punishment? How severe? Kill him?" the female voice asked, as if she didn't believe it. "The traitor this time is different. He is the master's student. If we really kill him, the master will not agree."
"You are wrong." Katrin, "We treat all traitors equally, even the master's students."
"I?"
"If you don't believe it, we can have a trial now," the first speaker said.
"This is best." The female voice said.
"Then let's begin." The first speaker said, and suddenly the candlelight on the table became brighter, dispelling the darkness in the secret room and illuminating the corners of the secret room.
In the corner, I saw a man tied to a chair, unable to move. Several silver needles engraved with magic patterns were pierced into the body, destroying any movement of mana and preventing the release of spells.
The face of the person tied to the chair was stained with blood, and his real face could not be seen, but it gave people a very young look. At this time, he was staring at the people sitting around the long table with wide eyes. The six people, their eyes full of anger and hatred, tried hard to open their mouths to say something, but their mouths seemed to be sewn shut by invisible forces and they could not open.
The woman who was the sixth speaker looked at it and said, "Did you use a gag spell?"
"Well, after all, he was too noisy." The first speaker said, "But now that he is being tried, according to the rules, he has the right to defend himself."
The first speaker spoke, waved his hand, and the air surged slightly. The man who was tied to the chair suddenly opened his mouth, and then shouted loudly: "Damn it, you bastards, let me go! Otherwise, when my teacher finds out what you did to me, you will all die!"
The first speaker looked at the person tied to the chair and spoke slowly: "Klee, are you still unclear? Even your teacher can't save you from what you did."
"What did I do?"
"Leaks, exposing the existence of Parliament."
"Nonsense, I didn't!" The man tied to the chair defended loudly, "You framed this all for me, I didn't do it at all!"
"Bang! Bastard! If you didn't do it, how did my men die?" The woman who spoke sixth slammed the table and said angrily.
"I..." The man tied to the chair weakened, but returned to normal the next moment, shouting, "I don't know! The death of your men has nothing to do with me! You are framing me, do you want to punish me?" My teacher just took action! I warn you, if you dare to hurt me, my teacher will know and will not spare you! Let me go and let me see the teacher!"
"Shut up, Klee!" Suddenly a majestic voice rang out. An old man in black robes stepped into the secret room. In his arms, he held a black cat with smooth hair.