You call this the mastermind?

Someone over there is secretly plotting to start a riot.

Here, Jim, the organizer of the banquet, is hiding in a utility room full of old items, looking down at a crystal ball.

The crystal ball is placed on a stone pillar, and dynamic images appear inside it silently.

That is the scene in the banquet hall at this time.

Jim and his friend Kevin did not dare to join in the fun after they noticed that his father was participating in the banquet.

But they were not willing to give up the plan to suppress the illegitimate child completely.

So they had to use this magic item called the Peeping Eye to indirectly control the overall situation.

It is not considered to control the overall situation, because this thing looks magical, but its actual function is not strong.

This crystal ball was invented by wizards, and its original intention was actually to peek into the private lives of ordinary people - some wizards are very interested in this aspect, just like ordinary people like to observe the survival and reproduction of wild animals.

Later, it was redesigned by other wizards, with certain enhancements, so that even those apprentices who have just stepped into the threshold of wizards can observe it.

Unfortunately, it is limited to an area that has been "set" in advance.

However, although the function is very limited, it is still no problem to find people.

"Just... where is the illegitimate child?"

Jim, who used this crystal ball to look at the hall, was secretly confused.

In his cognition, the illegitimate child was unfamiliar with everyone here, and as a half-blood, he must be very restrained in this banquet hall full of pure-bloods.

So he kept monitoring the hall and even the remote corners of the manor, hoping to find an isolated figure.

As a result, he found nothing at all!

Before, he saw a familiar figure with a relatively strong figure appear in the field of vision.

But not long after, the man left the hall with another lady who looked very beautiful from the back.

Jim thought it might be Arthur, but rationally he felt that this was impossible-

How could that guy have the courage to come to Ernest Manor after being suppressed so badly by him?

"I didn't see my dad either, it's really strange... Could it be that his disguise skills are so superb that no one can see any trace at all?"

Jim had a headache.

The whole manor is too big, and the crystal ball has a very narrow field of view, which is a bird's-eye view, making this search very difficult.

He stayed alone in this utility room and observed the situation boredly. After a long time, he couldn't help but feel restless.

Especially when the two primary targets, the illegitimate son and the father, were all missing.

So Jim couldn't help but start to be dissatisfied with his good friend Kevin.

Kevin asked him for help, but since last night, he didn't know what happened, and the guy never had a good face for him.

He even grabbed his arm roughly in the corridor and asked him what he was doing... He didn't understand, how could Kevin have the nerve to do that?

And now, this matter originally required two people to take turns to monitor, and even Kevin was the main one.

But when the guy heard that his fiancée from the Chelsea family was coming, he couldn't wait to leave the utility room.

He said he was going to greet her, but it has been half an hour, and he hasn't come back to replace him.

"What's this?"

"Does he think of me as a dog in his family?"

Smart people always pay more attention to some details, but because of this, they can also find the existence of certain attitudes from some details.

The Ernest family is not a top family. Jim can become friends with Kevin because of the friendship between the elders and the same single-parent experience.

But in fact, the gap between families is still obvious.

When the relationship is close, two young teenagers may ignore this.

But now, when the relationship between the two sides has a crack, the class sense that was originally ignored intentionally or unintentionally immediately emerges.

This made Jim squint his eyes, and the more he thought about it, the more emotions accumulated in his heart.

However, this emotion did not continue to brew.

After a while, a waiter came to report, claiming that he had found the location of the illegitimate child.

"Finally found it!"

Jim was refreshed, and then hurried to the hall.

He had to find his good friend Kevin first before he could officially start the plan.

…

“The piano is not suitable for playing with a third hand. I would say that only by touching its keys with real hands can you play the most soul-stirring music.”

On the second floor of the banquet hall, Kevin, who was sitting on the east side of a round table near the fence, was speaking to two girls wearing ghost masks opposite him in a professional manner:

“For example, Ms. Jennifer from Cole County, although she is a high-level wizard, she always plays with her own hands. It is for this reason that she can be called the first musician of the Blackthorn Kingdom.”

“Jennifer? It is said that the lady will make a guest appearance on the first day of school at Fort Saint Grant?”

The pale long-faced ghost masks look exactly the same, and the two girls are dressed similarly, so they can only tell who is who by the voice.

The voice of the person who was speaking at this time seemed a little crisp and pleasant, and even instantly made people feel the lively atmosphere in it.

However, when Kevin heard this voice, a hint of disappointment flashed in his eyes.

“Maybe.”

He smiled gracefully on the surface.

"Every time Saint Grant Castle holds an opening ceremony, it will bring surprises to the students. I think it would not be a surprise if Ms. Jennifer went to participate."

"But it is said that she was attacked by a Scarlet Cross wizard last month and was seriously injured."

"There is such a thing?"

Kevin was obviously a fan of the lady she mentioned. He frowned immediately after hearing this, "Where did you hear it from?"

"It was mentioned in the Wizard Daily Morning."

"The credibility of this news should not be very high,"

Kevin breathed a sigh of relief, "That newspaper always likes to spread rumors, it's simply..."

Their chat sounded very pleasant, and there was no dull situation.

However, with a little observation, you will find that the person sitting next to the lively girl has never spoken, but just listened quietly, occasionally turning his head to look at the hall below, looking a little bored.

But in fact, she is not really bored.

Alyssa is just using this attitude to express her dissatisfaction with her friends around her.

Yes, dissatisfaction.

Because her mother reached a preliminary marriage intention with Kevin's Felix family without considering her opinion, Alyssa hated Kevin very much.     However, knowing her attitude, her friends around her kept responding to her words, and from time to time, they turned around to ask her what she thought about something.

Obviously, they were trying to smooth things over for Kevin.

But she was her good friend, why should she help an outsider who was not very familiar with her?

"I shouldn't have come here."

Alyssa secretly regretted it.

It won't be long before she goes to school, but her character has obvious flaws.

Alyssa actually knew this very well, so when she received an invitation from her friends around her, she thought that it might be a good idea to come and adapt to the crowded environment in advance, so as not to make any jokes after officially enrolling -

It is said that in that wizard school, any student needs to live with three other roommates.

However, after arriving here, she didn't feel that there was any adaptation.

Her friends around her blindly catered to Kevin, which even made her feel a little strange.

As if her only support was taken away, Alyssa became more and more uncomfortable with the noisy environment around her.

However, to her relief, the conversation between the two sides did not last long.

As a waiter hurried over and whispered something in Kevin's ear, the face of this "fiancé" that Alyssa hated changed, and then he finally got up and left.

So the familiar friend next to her came back again.

"Why didn't you speak just now, Alyssa?"

She asked in a chattering voice, "After all, he is your fiancé, why is your attitude so cold?"

"I will not marry him."

Alyssa said dissatisfiedly.

She has said this to different people no less than ten times.

Unfortunately, no one seems to care about her thoughts.

"Since your mother has already decided on Kevin, it will be hard for you to resist."

The friend said indifferently: "Let me tell you, Kevin is not bad. Although he looks a little ugly, he has a good personality."

"Otherwise, look at those guys who come from the same background as him, which one of them is not arrogant and domineering?"

Well, I talked to him for so long before, and now you say he is ugly...

Alyssa was a little speechless to her friend.

Although she looked down on Kevin, she felt that the guy's appearance was actually within the range of normal people, and he was not ugly anyway, right?

"Winnie's father also disagrees with Winnie dating that magician."

What she thought in her heart was one thing, and what she said on the surface was another thing, and then she heard Alyssa said: "Didn't you compromise in the end?"

"Winnie, that's different."

The friend sneered: "She is ten times uglier than Kevin. Normally, she can't marry a wizard, so she can only date an ordinary person."

"She is so impulsive. She doesn't think about it. If she really has a mixed-race child in the future, won't she be bullied to death? Her whole family will be ashamed because of this."

Alyssa frowned when she heard it.

It's been about three months since she last saw this friend in front of her. The time is not short, but it's not long either...

Why didn't she realize that this friend in front of her would be like this before?

Thinking of how she cried when she saw a kitten injured on the roadside when she was a child, and now she speaks ill of another friend without scruples, she was inexplicably a little confused.

"What's wrong with you?"

Seeing that she didn't speak for a long time, the girl wearing a ghost mask asked in confusion, "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"Nothing."

Alyssa shook her head, "I just--"

Before she finished her words, she was interrupted by a sudden noisy sound in the hall below.

The sound sounded a little wrong, and the two turned their heads to look, and found that there seemed to be a conflict between two people below.

On one side was a black-haired figure with outstanding temperament, but because he was wearing a cat-faced mask, his specific image could not be seen clearly.

The one who had a conflict with him was a tall brown-haired boy. No one knew what happened. At this moment, he was pointing at the other party and roaring something.

Not far from the two of them, there was a girl in a sky blue dress, who was eagerly wiping some wine spilled on her skirt with a handkerchief, looking flustered and like she was about to cry.

There were a few people beside them whispering something to comfort them.

"That person was walking carelessly and bumped into Evelin."

After looking carefully for a while, they understood what happened, and their friends sneered.

"But I dare say that bitch must have deliberately leaned on that unlucky guy."

"Why?"

Alyssa was very surprised to hear this, "Do they have a grudge?"

"Of course not, Evelyn is just taking the opportunity to show how popular she is."

The friend said sarcastically: "Look, aren't there several men standing up to defend her now? In this way, others will see that Evelyn is so popular, she must be a good girl with both good character and good academic performance, right?"

"A bunch of idiots, it's really fucking hilarious..."

"Isn't this too much?"

Alyssa was surprised to hear this, "Just to show that you are popular, you can just cause trouble to others?"

"What's this."

The friend said disdainfully: "In the wizard world, there are many more excessive things than this. If even this - oh, my God..."

She suddenly let out a cry of surprise, and then seemed to have seen something extraordinary, and hurriedly leaned sideways on the fence to look down carefully.

Seeing this, Alyssa turned her head and looked, and found that the two men below had already started to fight each other.

Or it can't be considered a fight. The tall and strong brown-haired boy just grabbed the black-haired boy's collar with his hand, and was suddenly knocked to the ground by the other party. He covered his cheek and wailed in pain, and didn't get up for a long time.

However, perhaps because he was too strong, the mask on the black-haired boy's face fell off accidentally.

"Yes, it's really too much!"

The friend who had a disdainful look on his face before suddenly became indignant at this moment.

"I have never seen them bully people like this! Never!"