Chapter 126: VOL 2 Chapter 71: A fierce and ruthless tigress.
The reason for Martín's happiness and Sofía's astonishment was very simple. Although the Arcane Order was known as the land of opportunity, if you were to ask any random person what the second most appealing aspect of the Order was for ordinary folks like them. Without a doubt, everyone would say it was its security.
In the Arcane Order, everyone was equal before the law, and those who broke the law were pursued and judged mercilessly regardless of their position or power. There was even a legend that several millennia ago, the Order executed one of its Master-level members for going against the law—something that, frankly, nobody believed.
However, the fact that the Order never denied it only meant that, at the very least, it was far better than any other faction, where Master-level individuals remained unpunished, no matter what they did—unless they committed treason.
That's why, for Martín, the fact that his sister Sofía would end up working for someone from the Arcane Order was undoubtedly the greatest good fortune they could have received. It could only mean a better life for everyone, including him and their sister Clara. Since it was well known that if a family managed to send someone to the Arcane Order and that person didn't forget them, they were guaranteed a great life ahead.
A prime example of this was their neighbors, the Gaitán family, who pooled all the savings from decades of work by the entire family to send their youngest son to the Arcane Order in search of opportunities. In less than five years, not only had the boy stabilized himself there, but he had even saved enough money to come back and take his entire family with him—eight people in total, or in other words, eight tickets.
That was a considerable sum, practically out of reach for most people in the Auroria Kingdom, and it was a clear demonstration of what could be achieved in that dreamlike faction.
But now Sofía had not only secured passage to the Arcane Order; she had done something even more shocking: she was going to work for a student of the Arcane University, the most prestigious and important university in the entire galaxy. It was so renowned that even people like them knew that simply graduating from that university was a guarantee of never being out of work, no matter where one went—just showing your degree was more than enough to be hired for high salaries.
As for Sofía, she honestly felt like she was dreaming, feeling as if she'd gone from the depths of hell straight to the pinnacle of heaven. It turned out that, right from the start, she hadn't sold her soul to some heir of a famous house. Instead, by saving her brother, she had practically handed herself over on a silver platter to someone from the Arcane Order—someone who couldn't do anything too extreme to her due to his faction's laws.
And, if that weren't enough, now she wouldn't have to be too far from her siblings because as everyone knew, the people of the Arcane Order were very wealthy. Now they would be too, so it would be nothing for them to pay for flights to reunite with each other inside the Order.
"Are you okay? Do you really hate the Arcane Order that much?" Erik asked, a bit confused at Sofía's reaction. She immediately got up from the ground and bowed deeply in an apology.
"No, Boss, in reality, it's my dream to become part of the Arcane Order. It's just that it's dangerous to say so out loud here because it's something the leaders don't like, and it can lead to death. Therefore, I sincerely apologize from the bottom of my heart for lying to you."