[Third POV]
Inside the building, there was a large round table. Ten people were sitting at a table with an aide right behind them.
"How long has it been since the ten of us have been altogether?" A woman with a black robe and black hair said.
"Restia, stop this nonsense. We met three months ago." A cat woman had said, stopping her bullshitting.
"Ann is right. We don't have all time here." A woman with bright golden wings had said. Siding with the catwoman, she asked the woman in black to stop.
"Always so serious," She sarcastically chuckled and then sneered at them.
"Why don't we make a bet?" The nine others didn't expect the woman named Restia to make a bet suddenly.
"What nonsense are you going on about?" A dwarf in the mix was starting to get annoyed by Restia's antics.
"All of us are having our students compete in a month. Why don't we all bet on our first-year students to win? The winner would gain the favor of everyone here." Restia had felt confident making a bet.
"Is that all? I heard that a child from your side had already reached the third rank. You shouldn't be too overconfident because of that." An elf lady had interjected by opinion when saying that.
"Maria, I will take it that you accept this bet?" Seeing that someone had taken the bait, Restia couldn't help but smile.
"Then does anyone else want to accept?" Restia said, trying to rope more people in.
Everyone else became silent. Restia, who had to propose this bet, was a craft witch. Even if she was playful, everyone knew that she wasn't stupid.
"I will join." A confident voice joined in the bet knowing her chances were pretty high.
"Lorey, you're usually cold. I didn't think you would join a small competition like this." While no one would think Lorey would join, it wasn't surprising that her team would win.
"I heard someone from Celeste and Solaris would join your team. It would be a pity if they were crushed." With these two lined up, her chances of winning were pretty high.
"Is it the only three of us? All of you are boring." Restia couldn't help but click her tongue, seeing that only three had joined.
"I will join!" Ann, the cat girl, decided to join in the fray.
"I will also be joining!" A dragonewt had said, interested in this bout.
"This generation is impressive. Everyone's potential is much higher than the previous years. Don't you think this is a sign?" The dragonewt had continued.
Because of the dragonewt joining in the bet, half of the people here were already in. The other half was still undecided.
"That's right. This generation is one of the best. Imagine being not confident in a generation like this. How disgraceful." Using the dragonewt's words, Restia egged them on.
Hearing what Restia had said, some of them couldn't help but grit their teeth. Losing this bet was a big deal. Whoever wins would gain too much.
"Then I will also join." Convinced by Restia, another demon that goes by the name Patricia had joined the bet.
"Tsk, I have no choice but to join." The smallest in the group, a fairy, had also clicked her tongue.
"You all can't be serious." The woman with wings couldn't help but sigh, seven had already joined, and the other two seemed like they were also going to join.
The two remaining people couldn't help but look at one another. Seeing that almost everyone but the winged women joined, they both agreed.
"We would also like to join this bet." The remaining two were another demon and another dragonewt.
"I guess I would have no choice but to join." Seeing everyone in this bet, the winged woman had no choice but to join. She couldn't back away now. She would look weak if she did.
"Isn't this great? Who would have thought that everyone would accept my proposal?" Restia couldn't help but giggle, seeing how they all joined.
"Let's get back on what we are here for." The winged woman couldn't handle it anymore. She needed everyone to get back on the right track.
"Still serious as always, Karen." Restia couldn't help but say anything else afterward.
"The monster king revival is in a few months. All of us should get ready and prepare for the upcoming wave." The winged woman named Karen had said.
"I had already gotten prepared months ago." Restia couldn't help but retort.
"The Solaris family is wiping every monster in our country." Lorey also joined in.
"We dragonewts of Mt. Igarde is also wiping every monster off."
"Us dwarfs..." Before the dwarf could say anything else.
"I get it. Most of you are already prepared." The winged woman couldn't help but grit her teeth.
"For a loudmouth, you sure are incompetent." Restia snickered while looking at Karen.
"Restia, do you want to fight? You have been nothing but a nuisance in this meeting." Karen was almost flipped. Any more would have angered her to fire her magic at Restia.
"Since most of us here had already prepared. We also would need to send a team against the monster king."
"With the monster king at its weakest, taking it out early is our best chance," Karen told her plan, trying to beat it as fast as possible.
"And where do you suppose we find the monster king?" Restia was pretty mean-spirited toward Karen.
"The Lunaris family got that covered." Lorey had already prepared for this and saved Karen's ass from being roasted.
"The monster king will appear to be in the country of Estia." Hearing this, the fairy representing the meeting for Echela couldn't help but pale.
There would be a lot of damage to the country of Estia. The fairy could now try its best to minimize the damage.
"Then let's begin our distribution of each troop." Now that everything was ready, they needed to send capable people.
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