Throne of the North.

Chapter 166 Huge Debt
"So... you already owe 500,000 gold coins."

Looking at Ryan's appearance, the baron's eyes widened at the words of Master McKen.

"what?"

Master McKen said unhappily:
"You don't think that the magic academy supports the training of magicians without asking for anything in return, do you?"

"A great wizard like me already owed 500,000 gold coins when I was sponsored to the Mage Tower."

"Normally, it will take 20 to 30 years for a great wizard to pay it back. If you want to pay it back in advance, that's fine. However, every great wizard is an abyss that devours gold coins. Usually, they don't use the gold coins they earn to repay the loan first, but use it to improve themselves."

"In fact, more than half of the dozens of towers in the Magic Academy have not paid back a single gold coin. As long as they stay in the Magic Academy, they can ignore this debt."

"My situation is still considered good. If someone has been in the magic academy since childhood and has relied on the magicians there since he was a junior magic apprentice, and has cultivated to become a great magician, he would owe more money."

Ryan looked confused.

"So, Irina and the others..."

"Yes, you can ask them. None of them are of noble birth. They left me this time on the pretext of going to the North to observe the life trajectory of magical beasts. If you want to recruit them to stay here after a month, you will have to be responsible for their debts to the Magic Academy."

"Except for Irina who is a wizard, the remaining four are magicians and great magicians. The gold coins they owe... should be between 100,000 and 200,000."

Ryan was speechless. So, in such a short period of time, he had accumulated a debt of six or seven hundred thousand?

He didn't believe that Irina and the others would leave after Master McKen stayed, and there was no such option. Ryan would not let go of these top disciples from the magic academy.

Even though they are nothing in front of Grand Wizard McKen, any one of these five magicians can become a guest of honor among the nobles if he were to walk around the empire.

In Ryan's opinion, Viscount Hogg's priest is not as good as these people.

"But if you think about it this way, wouldn't Master Luna have earned hundreds of thousands of dollars for nothing in my territory?"

Thinking of this, Ryan no longer felt too much about the huge debt.

"By the way, when do you need to pay off this debt?"

Ryan's words made Master McKen's eyes widen.

"Do you really have so much money?"

But then I think about it, Ryan has wealth from another world, so it seems... not that hard to understand?

This is just a baron.

"Three years, starting from when we left the magic academy and signed the contract with you, the baron. In three years, pay off all the debts."

"Normally, a noble pays more than this, because they recruit magicians, not slaves. They need to support the magicians with a large amount of money every year, and pay the magicians a large amount of remuneration. This is the expenditure required for nobles to recruit magicians. It is also because of this that many nobles are unwilling to recruit powerful magicians. This is much more than the debts owed."

"In order to maintain the reputation and dignity of the nobility, it is impossible to say that you will not pay when you run out of money. Regardless of what the magician thinks, he will be labeled badly in the noble circle."

“So, in many cases, nobles are more interested in training magicians in their own families and recruiting low-level magicians who don’t cost much, especially those apprentices who have not experienced magic academy.”

Master McKen looked at the wild world in front of him. Obviously, he didn't need that salary. This world was the best reward for him.

Magic is a gold-devouring cave. At this moment, Ryan finally felt what the most powerful extraordinary path is, which is also equivalent to the most powerful abyss of money.

This is just the Grand Master. If you want to reach the Sanctuary or Legendary level, it will cost a lot of money.

Moreover, there is a saying in the magical path that legend is just another beginning.

Think about this...

"Hiss~" "Forget it, this is not a problem."

The worst that could happen would be a matter of fighting a few wars. Ryan was an undefeated legend in the North.

The main reason is that I can’t afford to lose.

Just a few mages had put him on a huge debt, and with the other aspects of the deployment, every gold coin had to be split into two halves.

"If one or two wars are not a guarantee, then we can only...fight more."

Ryan looked towards the center of the storm in the North Wind Province. If he could accept the offerings from the entire North Wind Province...

"It's time for lunch, Master McKen, let's go back first."

Ryan looked at Master McKen, who was as stubborn as a nail and unwilling to leave.

"I'm also going to take you to meet a friend."

Mage Luna is really good at hiding. For so many days, Master McKen could sense the life fluctuations of Ryan and the Viscountess across more than a dozen rooms, but he could not sense the breath of Mage Luna at all.

When a great wizard stood in front of her, Wizard Luna shrank into the corner with some social anxiety. She looked at Wizard McKen with her copper bell jewel eyes. The old man seemed to be very stupid.

"Is this... the magic of life and soul?"

"Not only that, there are also puppets and earth magic."

Mage Luna said dissatisfiedly, why is this old man staring at her?
Ryan certainly didn't just want to let the two most powerful transcendents in the territory meet, more importantly -

"As you can see, both of you need a magician tower. Even if I have the ability by then, I can only complete the construction of one of your magicians' towers first."

Although Ryan said this, his eyes were looking at Master McKen.

Even without the Mage Tower, you are still a Grand Mage and can still complete the breeding and research of war horses.

But without the Mage Tower, Luna the Mage cannot complete the soul magic sequence, so she can only spend money lavishly and cannot even help Ryan make those magical magic potions.

"Let's finish hers first."

Archmage McKen still spoke with some incomprehension. He couldn't help but look at Archmage Luna many times. It's not like he hasn't seen golem puppets before. Many archmages like these big, dull guys to act as gatekeepers of the mage tower.

Better than World of Warcraft.

No need to eat, and no temper tantrum.

But this situation...

He doesn't understand.

He was also somewhat curious about what changes would happen when Master Luna became a great wizard.

After this matter was settled, Ryan breathed a sigh of relief. It was really not easy to raise two super units.

Even if it weren't for various reasons, Ryan's current wealth would not be enough to support these two people.

"We have to quickly generate wealth in the territory, but the essence of economic development is circulation."

"Besides that...the wealth from war can solve the urgent problem."

(End of this chapter)