Chapter 226: Rinella’s Destiny is Her Own (19)

The family reception room was filled with silence for a while.

Ria had already left. She actually wanted to stay with us, but I intentionally gave her a hint to leave.

In the end, while maintaining a grumpy expression until the last moment, my younger sister left. Judging by the displeased look she gave me, her temperament remained unchanged.

I wonder which man would dare to take that tomboy.

I secretly sighed and leaned back on the chair.

Ria had been famous for her beauty for a long time. Some families, perhaps lured by that charm, had even proposed to her.

However, Ria dismissed them all in a single strike.

Well, to endure that feisty personality, the man had to be quite exceptional. At the very least, he needed to be on par in order to maintain peace in the household.

It was hard to say whether an equal partner to my sister existed, who was endowed with both talent and beauty.

But, the immediate concern now was not Ria’s marriage partner. Rather, a solution to address the crisis at hand was needed.

So, I had no choice but to ask the group abruptly.

“…What should I do?”

It was a brief but crucial question.

Many details were omitted, but the topic I brought up was clear.

The Rinella family’s mage corps was heading this way.

Skilled knights were already a scarce resource, but even their scarcity couldn’t be compared to mages because only a few families could form mage corps.

Only the five major noble families of the Empire, or a few called ‘Elite Mage Households’, had the capability to do so.

The Rinella family was one of those few.

They possessed a mage corps that was even rarer than a knight order.

The exact strength was unknown, but it was well-known that the commanders of each mage corps were composed of the Rinella family’s blood relatives.