169, you dropped your stuff.

Charles quietly hid in the corner, listening to the people in the room discuss grandly. Nearly everyone was consciously or unconsciously showing off their status, so he quickly realized that everyone in the room held a higher rank than he did.

Being able to reach the rank of Twenty-Ninth Grade First Level Clerical Chief within two to three years after graduation was already quite an achievement for the young talent, but this position was still considered low level in the room.

Charles silently listened to the people in the room bragging, boasting, and jabbering...

He didn't know if anyone had informed the Augusladin High Priest of his arrival, but he was patient. After all, many things in this world were beyond human efforts. As a mere human, he should know when to worry and when to forgive himself.

The affairs that the Augusladin High Priest plotted were well beyond his authority to interfere; he just needed to go with the flow.