Looking at the ring in Arad's hand, the wizards present were a little surprised, but they still took it as he said.

Ivana fastened the ring on her ring finger as Arad instructed. After inputting a small amount of magic power to activate it, her consciousness seemed to sink into an endless deep ocean.

In a trance, Ivana felt as if she had forgotten something, and then bursts of shouting rang in her ears.

"Mr. Officer...Mr. Officer!"

Ivana suddenly opened her eyes and saw seven or eight poor people in simple clothes around her, looking at her with surprise.

"Sir, are you awake?" The one who spoke was an old farmer.

"Officer?" Ivana hesitated for a moment, her mind still a little confused, but she quickly remembered that she had passed the parliament's selection and became an officer of the eastern territory of the kingdom.

Today was his first day in office. He was inspecting the territory with the townspeople, and volunteered to help with farming. However, he was probably too tired and fainted.

Strange, this shouldn't be the case with my physical condition...

Ivana frowned, but before she could think about it any further, her slight doubts were dispelled by the enthusiasm of the townspeople. She quickly calmed down and started her life as an affairs officer!

In the first week, Ivana did not do anything rash, but spent her time interacting with the townspeople and understanding the current situation of the village.

Just like the rest of the recovered kingdom's territories, everything here exudes an air of conservatism and decay. The local lord who often oppressed the poor was hanged on a crooked tree on the city wall a week ago. All that was left were a group of illiterate farmers who could only farm and hunt all their lives. This formed a sharp contrast with the vibrant and ever-changing Kerosene City.

Moreover, there are quite a few local people who are devout believers in [Ella]. After hundreds of years of propaganda by the church, the people are very wary of wizards - this is based on the fact that the Musketeers have already dealt with the local nobles who oppressed the people and have used all means such as suing for land distribution and beating up the local tyrants.

Her mission is to undermine the faith of these subjects and free them from the old days of hunger and cold.

Ivana felt the weight of her responsibility, and the first thing she did was to have all the people in her territory stop growing wheat! After all, the price of grain had reached its lowest point in history, and with the magic bread, it could be expected that the price of wheat in the kingdom would be difficult to return to its original level for a long time to come.

In fact, if Parliament had not been buying grain at the price of one copper, wheat would now be worthless!

So we have to change!

After her visit, Ivana soon learned that the local viscount who was hanged owned a wine-making estate that specialized in brewing a unique blue fruit ale, which had been selling well among the nobles.

In view of this, Ivina immediately found several winemakers from the winery and carefully inquired whether this blue fruit could be grown on a large scale and what the approximate yield would be. After receiving satisfactory answers, she began the first step of her village reconstruction plan - during the autumn planting season this year, she would change the original wheat planting to blue fruit and build more wineries.

Ivina believed that the kingdom's citizens who entered the workshop and received higher salaries would never be so obsessed with eating a few pieces of bread. This blue fruit beer had a unique taste that was not available anywhere else, and this was their advantage! In addition, the price of wheat was very low now, and they could take advantage of this and get enough raw materials for brewing without spending much money!

Ivina's idea was undoubtedly good, but it was met with spontaneous resistance from a large number of townspeople. No one knew whether so many blueberries could be grown and made into wine and whether they could achieve the expected returns.

If we fail, won’t everyone starve to death?

The townspeople who had been farming for generations were not very willing to make experimental changes. They were already very satisfied to be able to get the land back from the nobles. No matter how low the grain price was, at least growing wheat could give them a bite to eat! In this regard, Ivana did not waste her words to persuade each family one by one, but directly spent a lot of money to rent all the fields and made a generous promise.

"Everyone should do as I say. If you make money, I want 70% of the profit. If you don't make money, all the losses will be mine!"

With the guarantee of real money and Ivina's promise, the strategy of replacing crops was barely implemented.

In order to ensure that everything went smoothly, Ivana even invited an elemental wizard who was proficient in farming to use magic to fertilize the land, eliminate insects and increase production.

Ivina's bold and radical strategy undoubtedly achieved very good results. She transformed a poor village into a production base for blue fruit beer. Everyone in the village participated in it, responsible for every link from planting to brewing to sales. Ivina also successfully passed the assessment and became the local mayor!

However, the girl soon discovered that after becoming the mayor, the troubles not only did not decrease, but increased instead. Ivana was almost too busy to stop, and every day there were all kinds of weird or strange things that required her to decide.

Today a farmer’s camel was stolen, tomorrow two villages are fighting over a water source…

These were only minor issues. The most difficult thing for Ivana was that a formal wizard had a dispute with someone in the tavern and killed a townsman with magic! According to the laws of the parliament, the murderer could be sentenced to death or more than 20 years of imprisonment and hard labor depending on the severity of his behavior! The special thing this time was that the murderer was a wizard, and he belonged to a school of great wizards. Both the newly recruited affairs officer and the village chief advised her that it was just a poor man who died. There was no need to judge a wizard for such a small matter, to anger a school with great wizards, and to let the other party pay some money to settle the matter.

Wizards are the masters of this kingdom, just like the noble lords of the past. They possess powerful magic. Their value and status are far beyond the reach of a poor man.

"No, that's not right. A wrong trial will cause the trust that the parliament has worked so hard to build among the common people to gradually disappear, and will make more wizards become daring and presumptuous... thus destroying the order of the entire kingdom!" Ivana said firmly.

This is not only a question of who is more valuable, the poor or the wizard, and whose life is more important, but also represents whether the dignity of the kingdom's laws has been lost! In view of this, Ivana personally arrested the man... Troubles followed one after another. Many wizard schools accused and scolded her for fighting a wizard for the life and death of a poor man. Some councilors even proposed to remove her as the mayor.

In order to deal with these harsh accusations, Ivana was exhausted, but she still withstood the pressure and finally gained the approval of the parliament. She was tried in the royal capital and sentenced to fifteen years of forced labor and a large amount of compensation.

Although Ivina felt that the sentence was too light, she also understood that it was unlikely to ask the other party to pay with his life. At least enough compensation could save a family.

With these achievements, Ivana was quickly promoted to the mayor of the Steel City.

Then her incompetent and long-lost brother came to her and begged her to help him rig this year's civil servant examination so that he could be successfully elected.

Ivana looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar face and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

At this moment, outside the examination room, all the answer sheets have been sent to the conference room to be judged and corrected by eight great wizards.

The basic questions at the beginning were fine, as they had standard answers and they only had to consider right or wrong. However, the application questions at the end were different. There were no fixed answers, and they had to evaluate whether the other party’s decision was effective. It was highly subjective, and there were endless discussions about various strategies.

For example, a great wizard was very impressed with Monroe's answer. This kind of swift and ruthless approach to the enemy is not very suitable as an officer, but it is still very good as an investigator.

The issue that caused the most controversy was naturally the punishment for wizards who killed the poor, and the eight great wizards were almost divided.

The resources consumed in training a formal wizard are not a small number. Those with magical talent must be selected from the people in the territory. After several years of learning and drinking the source of magic power, there is less than a 40% chance of promotion.

Not to mention relying on magic, a wizard is equivalent to dozens of laborers and combat forces. In any aspect, he is much more important than a poor person, and it is even more impossible for him to sacrifice his life for it!

"The kingdom is a kingdom of wizards. How can we judge wizards because of a poor man? In my opinion, according to the standards of the wizarding land in the past, a fine of twenty is enough!" The great wizard Sanchez sneered.

He believed that officials of the kingdom must understand this, and those who made judgments or even imposed heavy penalties on wizards' answers must carefully consider their abilities.

"Why don't you take a look at this answer sheet!" Raphael didn't intend to make any further excuses and directly handed over a test paper.

Sanchez curled his lips and took it. After all, the value of a wizard is far beyond what a poor man can compare to. But after taking a few casual glances, his brows couldn't help but frowned.

This answer sheet did not judge whose life was more valuable, but rather from the perspective of maintaining the dignity of the parliament's laws, it believed that if this matter could not be handled impartially and the wizard was easily let off, it would cause extremely bad negative effects, damage the trust that the parliament had built up with great difficulty among the civilians, and even cause similar incidents to happen frequently...

"Whose answer is this?" Sanchez pondered for a long time before asking.

"It's a witch named Ivina." Raphael replied briefly. "I think her answer is very good and should be the first one this time!"

Several great wizards nodded after reading the answer sheet. Ivana gave relatively reasonable answers to most of the application questions, and her style was very consistent with the previous decisions of the parliament.

Or maybe the other party had specifically learned about the various strategies they implemented in the kingdom and gave a similar answer.

The last question was thought of from the perspective of upholding the law, which is already a step ahead of others.

Even Sanchez, who advocated a lighter punishment, could not say anything against it.

While Raphael and others were discussing each test paper intensely, Lin En was watching the official wizards who were pulled into the magical realm to see how they would deal with the various questions they had just answered.

How many people say one thing and mean another, and how many can stick to their principles?

Some things are much harder to do than to say!

Vittorio, who was also the invigilator, said with emotion, "It's a good thing you were able to convince the [Secret Law Society] to use the Microcosm in this place!"

Lin En smiled and didn't reply. After all, it was the first selection exam for the parliament, so he had to take it seriously.

Not to mention that the kingdom is now filled with a large number of spies from the church, and there are also many internal opposition parties. The selection of senior managers must be done with extreme caution.

The principle of this magic is somewhat similar to dreaming. The person who is under the spell will be in a state of blurred memory in the magic field. It has no effect on the great wizard for the time being. Formal wizards also need to use the secret ring as a medium.

As for the rest of the poor people, there is no need to spend so much effort. They can be left to the psychic wizards, who can solve the problem with a dream-guiding spell.

Compared to taking the test while being conscious, the answers obtained using this method are obviously more credible. Everyone will face their own choices realistically in their dreams, which can basically eliminate the possibility of lying.

Of course, this is not a one-time solution.

After all, people always change. Maybe the other party can keep their original intention within three to five years, but in the long run, there will always be people who can't resist the temptation brought by power. At that time, it will be necessary to establish a relatively complete supervision and reporting system.

In any case, he had done his best in this election test, and even secretly added some information to expand the computing power network of the intelligent brain, and then he made an unexpected discovery.

Among the 17 wizards who took the exam, there was one person who was particularly special, that was Monroe! The intelligent brain couldn't decipher his mental fluctuations at all, which surprised Lin En very much. You know, even Harov, Vittorio and others couldn't resist the mental power of the intelligent brain to decipher, and Monroe was just a formal wizard! Did he have some kind of strange treasure, or was someone providing him with some kind of protection...

Information about Monroe popped up in Lynn's mind.

The other party belonged to the White Dove School that was destroyed by the church. He and Ivina followed the Wizard Mutual Aid Association to the Kerosene City. His performance in the Wizard Academy was mediocre, or even poor. On the contrary, Ivina's grades were always very good.

The intelligent computer had no problem deciphering the girl's mental power, but because the time was too short, it was unable to spy on her memory.

Lin En hesitated for a while, it seems that we need to pay more attention...

(End of this chapter)