Spellmaster’s Manual

2021-10-23

  Chapter 132 Rules of the Game of Power

“Legal Violation?”

Everyone in the institute's wine cafe looked blank, and someone asked, "Aren't these two antonyms? A coin has both heads and tails? A person is both male and female?"

" Are you discriminating against me!" A neutral-looking human slapped the table and stood up, "You are making fun of intersex people in public!? And intersex people have become the new mainstream culture, they can enjoy the goodness of men, but also Being able to feel the beauty of a woman is obviously the most perfect gesture, how can there be such a stubborn backward person like you in this era——"

"I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I'm very sorry. You caused harm." The former quickly apologized.

Lawrence scratched the scales on his face and asked the Snake Boss: "Snake Boss, do you know what the legal and illegal behavior he said is?"

"His... ...you can probably guess."

"Oh? Tell me more?"

At this time, Snake Boss laughed and suddenly asked: "Hey, Lawrence, are you used to the life of the institute? Experiment How about the room?"

"Very good." Lawrence said casually: "The experimental research is also going well. Recently, the materials are too abundant. Necromancy means that the more materials, the faster the progress. Wait, Snake Boss Don't change the subject, what is a legal and illegal act?"

"Hey...you look at the light curtain, someone is going to speak."

Lawrence looked towards the light curtain, feeling faint in his heart It feels a little weird.

He felt that the Snake Boss was unwilling to talk to him.

And this kind of reluctance, he is very familiar with.

It's like when he was admitted to middle school, the human classmates asked him why he wanted to work after school instead of going back to the nursing home to study or have fun. Lawrence was reluctant to answer such questions at the time, because he knew that humans couldn't understand his situation.

Different origins, different environments, it is useless to say more.

But here, everyone can understand each other, because everyone has abandoned the identity of the lower race and become more noble...

Wait, is the snake Boss a Blood Saint Race? ?    He kept squinting his eyes, as if he had never seen his blood pupils...

At this time, a voice from the light curtain interrupted Lawrence's thinking.

"In 1659, the municipal public examination, the Xilang District Market Supervision and Administration Bureau was recruited."

The speaker is still Edmond Mencken. He endured the pain of burning skin, clenching one's teeth and said: "Fernandez hopes his classmates can get this position, but his classmates' ability is not enough to be admitted to such a popular position, so he thought of a way. "

"First of all, he found a scholar who was fully qualified or even exceeded the standard in all aspects, and instructed the scholar to take the operator exam to get this position. At the same time, the classmates also took the exam, but naturally I didn't pass the exam."

"Waiting for a month later, scholar will voluntarily resign."

"So Fernandez's classmates entered the supervision and administration bureau like this."

Mencken said, "Of course, that's what Fernandez did when he was a member of parliament, and when he becomes the mayor's secretary, it won't be so troublesome. He will set the job requirements based on who he is. Human, male, 30 years old, adding a series of restrictions... This position is naturally obtained, and the procedure is completely legal and compliant."

"Although the Office of Political Affairs is required for entry, the specific screening requirements are not It is in the hands of various departments. As long as you can reach a political alliance with the sect masters of various departments, you can easily leverage huge energy." He looked towards ogre: "Half of the members of the Linzhong Gallery joined the government affairs department system like this, and there are also many The members succumbed to Fernandez's threats or inducements and became Fernandez's accomplices."

Menken thought for a while, and then added: "Oh, some people may not understand, the Gallery in the Woods is a gallery opened by Fernandez. Filled with his believe oneself infallible works. Members of their faction usually choose to meet in galleries, so the Fernandez faction is also known as the gallery in the forest."

Fernandez responded coldly: "You wine club of immortality. Don't the members of the government also occupy one-eighth of the office of the Government Office?"

One-eighth, it may not sound like a lot, but if it is dispersed into various departments, and there are several department leaders, That is a huge intelligence network and political power. Andreyer is regarded as a strong contender for mayor because the Wine Club of Immortality is enough to challenge the Gallery in the Woods.

dong!    With a muffled sound, the stone pillar below Fernandez suddenly began to twist, and the moonlight shining on the stone pillar danced like a snake, turning into a ferocious chain, from bottom to top Roll to Fernandez!

This natural phenomenon, Fernandez knows without turning on the light curtain, is because citizens voted for him.

Ogre's thoughts turned sharply, but his face remained calm: "You don't have to say that this seems to be a 'tradition' that I created. Long ago, this has become unspeakable and unbreakable. This is how everyone came here."

"If you don't join a faction, you can't get an excellent 'initial position'. If you want to get promoted, you not only need the recommendation of the sect master, but also It needs the attention of superiors. 'Pushing down and pulling up' is the only way to rise. If you don't join a faction, even if you are lucky enough to become a government clerk, you will only be waiting for a lifetime of grassroots tasks."

"All the parliamentarians and politicians here are not only the beneficiaries of the faction, but also the accomplices to maintain the faction's existence. In addition to the wine of immortality and the gallery in the forest, there are many small factions in the government office, just like spiders. The web, if you want to climb up, you have to climb the web, that's the rules of the game of power."

"All of this is just a very ordinary, everyday thing about power. 'Little capricious'."

In a wine cafe in a lower-level district, a middle-aged orc drinker suddenly covered his face and cried bitterly.

He remembered the public exam thirteen years ago. He placed second in the interview, and the first place was actually an elf scholar who completely crushed him in all qualities.

A middle age person in his 40s slumped into an ottoman with a bucket of potato chips in an apartment under the Kaimon City Food and Nutrition Bureau. He looked at the light curtain, adjusted his glasses, recalled the high-spirited and vigorous when he graduated from college, followed by more than 20 years of wasted silence, and he couldn't help feeling a little sad.

(End of this chapter)