After just waiting for about half an hour, Edward came back as expected.

Also coming with him were the two Lords of the Holy City, Johnson and Bruno.

"grandfather!"

Adela was naturally extremely happy when she saw Edward coming back. She quickly ran forward and blocked Edward's shoulder.

"Duke Johnson! Duke Bruno! Hello!"

After holding her grandfather's arm, Adela greeted the two city lords again.

"Pearl of the Sky City! Hello!"

Johnson and Bruno answered with smiles.

After they finished greeting, Edward saw Adela's surprised look and knew that his granddaughter must be anxious. He patted her hand on his arm and comforted her softly.

"Haha, can't you wait for the pearl of the Sky City? Don't worry, grandpa will introduce Gervais to Duke Johnson and Duke Bruno first!"

After saying that, Edward looked at Gervais, who was now able to walk slowly on his own.

"Duke Edward!"

Polite greetings from Gervais!

"Well! Gervais, let me introduce to you that these two are Duke Johnson and Duke Bruno respectively. I specially invited these two city lords to come as witnesses this time!"

"Johnson, Bruno, this is the young murderer, his real name is Gervais Gale!"

"Duke Johnson, Duke Bruno, hello! Nice to meet you!"

"Haha, you don't have to be so polite. In fact, we should thank you. It was your intervention that night that allowed our heir to escape safely!"

The Holy City where Johnson and Bruno are located is ranked in the middle and upper reaches of the Holy Alliance. Even if they are friends with Gervais as the God of Killing, the knights are still not qualified.

But now that Gervais is going to become Adela's guardian knight, the situation is different.

With this halo, Gervais's identity is recognized by Edward, so everything will rise.

Before Gervais has truly reached the top of the powerful, he has gained more benefits by becoming Adela's guardian knight.

At least the title of "Guardian of Miss Adela of the City in the Sky" can seduce most small and medium-sized families.

After Gervais and Johnson also greeted each other, Edward looked at Adela and asked.

"By the way, Adela, is Master Winton here?"

Johnson and Bruno attended a meeting with Edward at the Holy Alliance headquarters in the morning, so they were together when they came back.

But Winton was in the college. Edward had only arranged for someone to invite him, but he didn't know whether he came or not.

"Grandfather, Master Wenton has been here a long time ago, but because you haven't come back yet, he went to find Grandpa Bedford!"

Adela answered immediately.

"Well, then let's ask someone to invite Master Wenton to come, and let's officially start!"

Now that everyone is here, Edward will naturally not delay any longer. After all, Johnson and Bruno are also city lords and have a lot of things to do.

"Okay, Grandpa, I'll ask someone to invite you now!"

When Adela heard this, she immediately let go of Edward's hand, and then quickly stopped a passing servant and told him to invite Winton.

…

"Father, the humans and beasts are deliberately squeezing out our elves. It's so annoying!"

In the small manor in the inner city of the City of Hope, Alice had a rare look of anger on her pretty face. This was a rare expression on her, because Alice usually had a cold and unsmiling expression.

"Alice, dragons rarely appear on the mainland nowadays, and humans and beasts are stronger than us, so the rules are naturally made by them, so you don't have to be so angry!"

"Look at the Goblins, this quota was taken away from them! For them, this kind of thing is even more infuriating!"

Alder sat opposite Adela, and when he saw his daughter rarely showing an angry look, he was still very calm, because he had long known that things would not be that simple, and there was not much hope of competing for a spot.

Alice went to the Holy Alliance headquarters this morning to discuss the rules and time of the competition with the humans and orcs.

But after the meeting started, Adela discovered that the orcs and humans had already decided on the rules for the competition.

The method of competition is to use a challenge system. Each race can allow ten people to participate, and the winner will be determined in the end.

Whichever side wins will get the quota!

Originally, Alice wouldn't be angry with such a rule. Although they had already agreed, it was still fair.

But the problem does lie in the regulations for the participants. According to the rules agreed upon by the human race and the orc race, the participants in this competition for quotas cannot be over thirty years old at most!

It was this point that aroused Alice's anger. The elves have a lifespan of up to a thousand years, which is a racial advantage.

However, the growth period of the elves is also slightly longer than that of the humans and beasts.

In the first fifty years of life, the elves will practice half a beat slower than the humans and orcs.

For example, outstanding young people from the human race and the beast race can reach the rank of Golden Knight at the age of twenty.

The elves, on the other hand, can only reach the level of the Silver Knight. Although this gap will gradually slow down and shorten over time, elves can basically only grow at the same rate as humans and orcs when they are fifty years old.

In various competitions in the past, as long as the competition was dominated by young people and the elves were involved, the age limit would be relaxed specifically for the elves.

For example, humans and orcs cannot exceed the age of thirty, so the age of elves can be relaxed to forty alone!

But this time when Alice asked if there were such loan conditions, she got an answer of no.

Therefore, Alice knew that the rules that the humans and the beasts had negotiated this time were specifically designed to restrain the elves.

And among the young men under thirty years old who followed the elves this time, the ones with the highest strength could only reach the primary level of gold.

If this were to take place, there would definitely be no way to compare with the humans and beasts, and they would almost definitely lose.

In order to compete for a spot this time, Alice put so much thought into her heart, spent so much effort, and spent so many gold coins in the City of Hope.

In the end, she got into a situation where she was bound to lose, so she was naturally not willing to accept it!

Alice said nothing as she listened to her father's consolation. Naturally, it was impossible for her to feel relieved about the matter with just a word of consolation.

Seeing that his daughter was still sulking, Alder was worried that she would be too uncomfortable, so he thought about it and said to Alice.

"Alice, although we may not be able to compete for this spot, since you are here in the City of Hope, you can lobby to see if you can get the city lords of the Holy Alliance to relent and let that Gervais boy...

"

"Father, Gervais is my husband!"

When Alice heard her father calling Gervais, she immediately retorted.

"Okay! Okay! Okay! Let's see if we can get your husband's ministers recognized by the Holy Alliance!"

"As long as this matter is done, it will not be a wasted trip. Even if there is only one passage, at least they will have somewhere else to go after entering the passage."

When Alder heard Alice's rebuttal, he immediately changed his words and then continued.

“That’s all we can do now!”

After listening to her father's words, Alice pondered for a moment and nodded.

She also understood that the plan for now could only be as her father said. She couldn't come all the way to the Holy Alliance this time and then return empty-handed!

"Well, Alice, do you have a lobbying target?"

Seeing that his daughter had finally come out of her previous state, Alder felt relieved and asked immediately.

"Although the Holy Alliance has 108 holy cities, only those twelve can really decide the matter. Among them, the one in the Sky City is the strongest. I think I should give Duke Edward of the Sky City a try first!"

Alice said slowly while thinking.

She had such a plan before coming here. She originally wanted to wait until the competition for quotas was over to see if she could persuade the Lords of the Holy City to relent and admit the existence of Stormwind City.

Let Stormwind City join the Holy Alliance with Gervais as the city leader, and it doesn't matter even if it ends up being the last.

But now, the competition for the quota has not even begun, and the result has been guessed, so the focus is naturally on the latter matter.

The earlier you start, the more likely you are to succeed.

"Well, let's go! I saw it in the conference hall today. Duke Edward is probably the most sensible, but the Golden Shield family and the other two families are a little difficult to deal with!"

"But as long as you can make Sky City relent, I'm afraid it will be easier for other holy cities to win over you!"

Alder agreed with Alice's choice.

"Father, let's go to the Sky City station to meet Duke Edward now!"

Alice couldn't sit still anymore, and immediately stood up and said to Alder.

"Um!"

Alder nodded!

Afterwards, Alice returned to the small building of the manor, asked her men to get a lot of gifts, and headed towards the Sky City's station with dozens of guards.

…

The sun was shining, colorful flags were flying, and hundreds of people were already sitting or standing in the square outside the luxurious and exquisite building.

On the high platform that had been built in advance, Duke Edward sat in the center seat.
To be continued...