In the West City of St. Roland Castle, the Linde family's conference hall was full of people. Today was the family's daily meeting.
Count Linde Edra sat at the head of the main hall, listening to the reports of the people in charge of all aspects of the family.
Edra was fifty-five years old, a senior magister. He was still a character in the whole St. Roland Castle.
After everyone finished reporting, Edra nodded with satisfaction. The whole income was more than last month. Although it was not a lot, it was lucky that it did not decline.
At this time, the butler came to report that Tal wanted to see him.
"What is he doing here?
Isn't he in class now? "
Edra had some doubts in his heart.
"Let him in!"
After a while, Tal came in with a dejected face.
After listening to the report, Edra's face was gloomy.
Thinking of his youngest son's words last night, coupled with Tal's situation, he pondered.
At the same time, there was anger in his heart.
Letting his youngest son win over a poor child could make him an enemy. What a bunch of trash!
After a while, Edra said, "Since the dean asked you to rest at home for a while, you go back and rest. I will find you if there is anything."
Wherever Tal went, he felt that people looked at him with contempt. He was helpless and had to stay at home first, waiting for a chance to retaliate against Zhang Xing in the future.
"Send someone to keep an eye on the child named Zhang Xing. Don't get too close to the school."
"Let's see the situation first!"
Edra got up and left the conference hall.
After school at noon, Zhang Xing saw a group of students at the door of the dining hall on his way to lunch. He didn't know what they were looking at.
Judging from their expressions, they seemed to be particularly excited.
He looked over and saw that it was an announcement.
The trial of the Tower of Babel had begun.
Looking down, the annual school benefits that the students looked forward to the most, the most rewards, and the fastest improvement in strength officially began.
The trial tower had a total of 108 floors. Every nine floors was a stage. Passing a stage would reward rare magic materials, runes, and other things commonly used by beginner magicians.
Passing the second stage would reward items needed by intermediate magicians.
Passing the third stage would reward items needed by advanced magicians, magic skills, and so on.
The following rewards were similar. They were all rare and commonly used things for magicians at various levels.
Zhang Xing glanced at them and suddenly lost interest.
He didn't lack items below the rank of Magister, but he didn't need anything above that.
There were plenty of items in the system store. Once you reached a certain level, you could get whatever you wanted. All you needed to do was spend some gold coins.
Beside the announcement was the ranking of the Tower of Trials.
The first three names were written in golden, square characters.
The name at the back was slightly smaller.
First place, Warsky.
Second place, Cobble.
Third place, Saiya.
Fourth place …
Zhang Xing didn't have the patience to continue watching. He turned around and walked towards the restaurant.
"Zhang Xing!"
When he heard someone calling him, he turned around and saw that it was a classmate from a destitute noble family.
"Keldo, let's go eat together," Zhang Xing said.
Usually, the two of them got along quite well. Perhaps it was because the Keldo family was in dire straits or for some other reason, he would always intentionally or unintentionally show his goodwill to Zhang Xing.
Zhang Xing's principle was, "If you want to date me, that's fine. If you don't want to, forget it."
"Zhang Xing, do you plan to participate in the trial?" Keldo was twelve years old. He was taller than Zhang Xing by a head and looked a little funny.
His eyes were close to each other. When he spoke, his eyes were even closer to each other. He looked like he was cross-eyed.
"Not interested. Why, do you have such plans?" Zhang Xing asked.
"Where would he have the guts to go? Look at how poor he is. He doesn't even have a credit. How can he go?"
A frivolous voice sounded behind them.