Chapter 219: The Tin Knight and The Singing Bones (7)
“I’ve been in this position for almost 10 years, but this is the first day that’s been such a whirlwind.”
After the Tin Knight’s party had left.
Having finished subduing and restraining the pirates who kept reviving endlessly, seizing their ship, and brushing off the diplomat’s threats—or whining—that this matter would absolutely not be taken lightly, the guard captain finally sat down in a chair to rest his weary body.
The guard captain, who drank the coffee brought by his adjutant as if just replenishing nutrients without savoring it, read the dissatisfaction and doubt on his adjutant’s face and said, “You seem to have a lot to say. Are you so displeased that I granted that young lady’s request?”
“…To be honest, yes. While Miss Gale Elilaz’s position is high, that doesn’t mean she can arbitrarily manipulate the rules here.”
The criteria for receiving a high rank in the Tower of Protection was “how excellent a technique one invented, and how much of the invented technique one donated to the tower”.
High-ranking mages were respected as “excellent technicians”, but in other words, that was all.
Unlike the Tower of Control where rank and position meant almost the same thing, in the Tower of Protection, even if one had a high rank, that alone didn’t give the right to freely order others around.
Moreover, this was the border. The position of the person in charge of guarding it was one or two heads higher compared to other guard units.
It wasn’t for nothing that the guard captain lightly brushed off the pressure from the diplomat from another tower.
“That’s just the principle. How many people in the world would ignore a ‘request’ from other 4th rank mages?”
“Miss Elilaz is different from other 4th rank mages, isn’t she?”