Warhammer Divine Throne-Chapter 657 - 289, Jialan Grand Assembly (Part 1)_3
She must find her own solution.
These days, Teresa has come up with some ideas, including selling her own magic scrolls, utilizing her contributions within the council to acquire funds, and the council has lent her some money. Yet, she still has a shortfall of at least six thousand gold crowns to fill.
How can she figure out how to get this money?
Firstly, the simplest way would be to borrow under her mother's name from some empire or Marinburg's trade guilds or lords; raising six thousand gold crowns shouldn't be difficult.
Still, she couldn't, and wouldn't, want her mother to expend energy on her affairs any longer. After a series of events, the female sorcerer realized that only her own excellence could be worthy of Laine, constantly relying on her mother's strength would actually lower her evaluation in Laine's mind.
Just like when the two of them started their journey from Nord, Laine would choose to accommodate and tolerate her not because he particularly liked her, but purely out of respect for her mother's influence, given that Aurora had taken significant care of Laine's adoptive father Norman and his domain Autene. Naturally, Laine felt he shouldn't treat Teresa poorly.
Thus, Teresa was left with two choices: borrow under her own name, borrow from Jialan witches, or find a way to borrow from larger trade guilds.
Teresa decided to rest for a while, then go find someone.
Meanwhile, at Celestial Vault Castle, within Falcon Tower.
The newly appointed Elder Jialan, Veronica, sat in front of the fireplace, while two other witches were speaking with her.
With long brown hair, dressed in a lake-green Nord royal court gown, possessing a melon-shaped face and small eyes, the Jialan member named Noel was a legendary witch of the Life Element, possessing one-quarter elf bloodline.
With black, droopy-eared short hair, dressed in a black wizard robe, wearing high-heeled ankle boots and gray stockings, the other member was speaking with Veronica. She looked quite beautiful, although her eye corners appeared somewhat dark, her attire was disheveled with several parts of the robe frayed and sleeves worn. She didn't seem to mind.
This member was named Philis, a legendary witch of the Death and Shadow Elements. Her husband recently died during the Nord Kingdom's rebellion campaign. This severe blow couldn't break her, but it did leave her despondent for quite a while.
These two were among the few friends Veronica could converse with within the Jialan Council. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
Today, Veronica was wearing a brown mink fur coat, underneath was a scented coffee satin dress, her long black-brown hair draped over her shoulders. The red agate earrings from the wood elf and the platinum necklace gifted by Laine shimmered brightly, her slender, straight black silk-clad legs crossed high, with petite silk feet donned in black velvet high heels. Her sweet delicate face still resembled a girl in her twenties, yet after many years of experience, Veronica's temperament had grown more aloof.
"Philis, I'm truly sorry about what happened this time." In her guest room, Veronica's posture was relatively relaxed as she softly said, "Cohen was a good man, just unlucky."
"Sigh~" Philis didn't say more, her gaze fixed on the burning fireplace, "Let's not talk about it anymore, Veronica, today is your good day, congratulations."
"Yes, Veronica, congratulations." Noel also expressed, her long brown hair styled into braids hanging down, and said with envy as the life-element witch spoke, "Among us, you are still the most successful."
"I merely gambled right," Veronica humbly shook her head, "With gains naturally come losses, I was lucky to encounter Laine."
Noel and Philis felt a bit awkward; they had once tried to persuade Veronica, but now it seems Veronica's choice was correct, while theirs was wrong.
This is decisiveness, something that envy cannot achieve from, who would have known that the young Ranger Knight from barely over twenty years old, the taciturn Laine, would ascend to become the Divine Chosen Champion of the Lake Fairy, and promote to count within less than a decade?
"Mentor!" Just then, Veronica's disciple Catherine suddenly knocked on the door, "Mentor, someone is looking for you."
"Someone? Who is it?"
