"What is this? A threat?" Lilith frowned.
"You're the vice president of the Gudilesi branch of the Sorcerer Association and a councilor in the city council. We don't want to do anything to you unless we have to, because doing so will undoubtedly bring us a lot of trouble. But ultimately, it all depends on your choice tonight. To be honest, there are many people on my side who are more inclined to get rid of you, but I finally convinced them to at least give you a chance to choose. I believe that President Lilith is a person who keeps her promises. You will not go back on your word. Please forgive my colleagues for having doubts about this. Honesty is becoming rarer and rarer in today's society."
Blitz looked very sincere. "You should also know how dangerous what you're doing now is. You don't know how many people we have and how much power we have in the Gudilesi branch. So, you don't even know who you can trust during this time. Otherwise, you wouldn't have hidden it from everyone and launched a private investigation."
"I'm curious. If you're really that powerful, shouldn't you have a more effective way to stop me? Why don't you just force me to give up the investigation through the higher-ups of the Sorcerer Association?"
"Because of Dardarion." Blitz pondered for a moment and finally decided to tell the truth. He knew very well that lying to a person like Lilith would only produce the opposite effect, not to mention that there was no way to cover up this kind of thing.
"If we solve this matter through the higher-ups of the Sorcerer Association, we definitely can't avoid Dardarion, the nominal president of the Gudilesi branch. And we don't want him to notice this matter. Compared to you, he's a more unstable factor."
"Are you afraid?"
"Except for the gods, we are not afraid of anyone. But we have to admit that that guy is too uncontrollable. My mission is to solve problems, not create new ones. So, I can only choose to talk to you in this way and try to solve this matter peacefully and rationally."
"What if I refuse?" The female sorcerer looked as calm as ever.
Blitz smiled bitterly. "I actually don't know why you're so insistent on this matter. Obviously, the case that happened after that was more serious, and more people died, and the impact on the public was worse. So, why do you keep holding on to us?"
"Do you really not know or are you playing dumb?" Lilith said solemnly, "I don't care about your purpose of coming here, how many of you have died, or the fire, but sneaking into Gudilesi with a monster recorded in the holy book is undoubtedly crossing the line. If the monster had escaped that night, how many people would have died because of it?"
"I see. This is indeed our negligence. Gudilesi is a very beautiful city. Please believe us, President Lilith, that we didn't mean to hurt it or the local residents." Blitz apologized. "Originally, everything was under our control. Unfortunately, we didn't expect a secret stronghold in the city to be ambushed. What happened after that wasn't our intention. I can guarantee that something like this won't happen again in the future."
"No, you don't understand. The problem is not that the monster got out of control for some reason, but that you shouldn't have brought it to Gudilesi in the first place." Lilith shook her head and said, "At the end of the day, you don't care about this city at all. You don't care about the life and death of other people living in this city at all. After interacting with you these days, I can feel that although you all look polite on the surface, you actually have no feelings deep in your heart. Not only to your target, to the people around you, and even to your own companions. That's what I'm most worried about. You are a group of people with no bottom line, which means that you may do anything in this city."
"Although I really want to refute it, what you said seems to be the truth." Blitz looked a little helpless. His right index finger tapped on the seat rhythmically, "But President Lilith, what can you do? The city council has decided to stop the investigation. What you did is equivalent to blatantly violating the city council's order."
"As the vice president of the Gudilesi branch of the Magic Association, I'm not only responsible to the city council. I can also exercise my emergency authority to submit the collected information to President Dadarionghui and Arbus. They will assess the threat you bring to this city and have the right to declare you the common enemy of all the magicians in Gudilesi," Lilith said without hesitation, "You and I have discussed so many conditions before. Now it's your turn to make a choice. Give me all the information related to your organization, evacuate all your people from the city within 12 hours, and promise not to come back. Of course, you can also try to challenge the magicians in Gudilesi."
"Or we have a third option." Blitz looked very regretful, "Although I personally don't want to go to this step, you are really a very outstanding person. You have pushed the investigation to this step single-handedly, which has already aroused our vigilance. But because of this, as long as we kill you tonight, no one will know what you have done."
"You can give it a try," the female magician said calmly.
As the vice president of the Gudilesi branch of the Magic Association, Lilith presented herself to the public with a shrewd and capable temperament most of the time. In recent years, the branch had developed well under her leadership and gradually got on the right track. Therefore, everyone had a very high evaluation of this actual controller of the branch. However, these praises were mostly focused on her management skills.
Lilith rarely fought in front of others. In fact, the Gudilesi city was full of high-rank magicians, and there was even a ninth-grade supreme magus like Arbus. When there was a real danger, it was not her turn to fight, but this did not mean that she had no combat power.
In fact, it was quite the opposite. As a top graduate of various southern schools, even in the St. Roland Academy of Magic where geniuses were everywhere, her actual combat performance had always been among the best. Lilith's fighting style was typical of academies. She paid attention to her own defense and endurance, and she had a calmness that did not match her age. Even many people who ranked above her did not have a headache fighting her. She was also favored by many teachers. When she graduated, many professors thought highly of her and hoped that she could stay in school. However, she eventually declined all the invitations and chose to join the Magic Association. After that, in just three years, she was promoted to the vice president of the Gudilesi branch. Blitz was right about one thing. If it were not for D 'Attarion's sudden appearance, Lilith would have been the most suitable candidate to take over the position of president.
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