However, just as he was about to turn around, a voice echoed in the hall:
"If Rolin really is the person of prophecy, it's indeed a great fortune for the Southern Region Alliance, but prophecy is prophecy, and tradition is tradition." The voice replied indifferently, "Prior to this, every heir to the Rose Workshop, including Lord Earl himself, has never made any exception—if the Earl makes an exception for Rolin, it might not be a good thing for this young man."
Upon hearing the voice, everyone involuntarily turned their heads to look for the speaker. When the crowd parted, they finally saw the person who spoke—a one-eyed man with an eye patch, a crippled leg, leaning on a cane, yet he was also an elder.
Despite his physical disability, everyone around dared not show any disrespect, just because he was the former Speaker of the Elfendo Alchemists Alliance. It was rumored that he hadn't managed internal affairs of the alliance for many years, like Ande, focusing solely on Alchemy.
