The conference would last ten days. It might be held under the pretense of a climate conference, but no one was actually going to talk about the weather. The politicians would take care of the strategic competition and cooperation in the meetings, while the cultivators were the ones making actual contact and physically fighting one another.
Hence, Gu Yu had been visiting Erhard every night for the next couple of days and got to know the others better.
Erhard was well over eighty, and was probably the most senior member of the European magic community. As the descendant of Paracelsus, he was an expert in magic and alchemy, which could be further categorized into aspects such as Homunculus, puppet stone figures, magic circles, pharmaceutics, etc.
Marianne was a Nordic witch and a master of auguries and curses. Her ancestors fled to the north during the witch hunts of the medieval times; there, they survived by sheer luck and had kept a low profile ever since.
