Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 523: The Mages of Qingfeng Territory

"In two or three years, I won't need their energy outside of working hours." After thinking it over, Lowry gave a suitable answer.

Cheska nodded happily: “Then I’ll arrange it!
Um... Baron, should we keep the profit distribution the same as before?"

Lori looked at her in surprise: “What’s the need to change it?

I hope there won’t be any mistakes in the tasks I assign.”

"Then don't worry. The first priority in the territory is always your wishes, Baron." After saying this solemnly, Cheska ran away immediately.

Lori smiled and shook his head.

He himself didn't want to work for those companies and suffer, so he certainly wouldn't let his subordinates suffer like that.

Although, the world is different and everyone's feelings are different.

But for Lowry, unless there is an urgent need, he generally does not let these skilled workers who have been trained with great difficulty work more than eight hours.

He would not do anything to hurt himself for such a small benefit... He was still the same person in the past.

Lowry may have slowly forgotten the faith and pursuit he once had, but he will never destroy it with his own hands.

Besides, even if Lowry has collected most of the children with magical and scholar talents in the North in the past twenty years, there are actually only more than twenty people in total.

There are nine mages among them, and except for the two students that Lowry has officially accepted, the other two have poor talents.

Not all mages are born with a photographic memory, and it can even be said that most of them cannot do so.

Although this world did not work out specific attribute requirements when analyzing talents.

But in fact, all professions basically have similar standards.

Mage talent does not only refer to intelligence.

No matter how high your intelligence is, it will be useless if you can't establish a sufficient connection with the spell energy.

But on the other hand, no matter how good one's talent is, if one's intelligence is too low, it's all doomed... Well, generally these people are mostly sent to the church to be used as faith batteries.

Lowry certainly has his own more sophisticated way of distinguishing.

But he had no intention of spreading this method… After so many years, this world has been exposed to enough foreign knowledge, but it still lives in confusion and bewilderment. There must be deeper reasons.

Lowry doesn't think that he should benefit the world just because he knows a lot. No matter what a humanoid dragon is, his position, for now, is only in this world.

It is indeed difficult for outsiders to regard a new world as their home, but Lowry, who has been wandering for many years and gradually made a foreign land his new home, is actually very open-minded in this regard.

He certainly won't love this world as much as he loves his former country, but his second hometown is still a hometown.

However, he must have secretly analyzed these children who came to Qingfengling in the hope of having a good future as a mage or scholar.

This is why he was certain that even though the locals didn't say anything, the awakening array should be able to determine the approximate range of a person's talents and attributes.

Among the wizard seedlings that were not taken away by the king's army and the court wizards, the best talent was basically only 13 intelligence.

According to research on the worlds of Toril, it is true that if one's intelligence is naturally above 10, one can sense the aura of magic, but in fact, if one's intelligence is less than 13, it is basically impossible to understand the essence of magic.

In fact, the so-called scholar seedlings are those who have sufficient intelligence but poor talent, and their utilization rate of spell energy is probably only at the level of ordinary knights.

Yuri's IQ is probably over 18 points since birth, and as he studies knowledge more and more deeply, it may exceed 20 points, or even more.

Otherwise, he would never have been able to manage the complicated and sophisticated complex magic array of the Earl of Hamilton so easily.

Bowen, who is beside the current Earl of Hamil, Ezra, is estimated to have an intelligence level of 13 points, the lowest level for scholars, and 15 points at most.

There is no wishing technique, nor is there any of those strange but well-known worlds of adding points to magical objects. Even if one tries hard, such talent can only add two or three points at most.

Yuri’s starting point is Bowen’s end point, and he may not even be able to reach it.

Talent is truly the most terrifying and unshakable watershed given by God.

Although Lowry understood this early on in his pursuit of the art world and had suffered tremendous blows, at least in his world, lack of talent meant he couldn't reach the highest level, but it didn't mean he couldn't pursue his favorite career for the rest of his life.

The amount of talent has never been the main reason that determines whether a person can take a certain path; survival is.

It is actually very difficult for these children with magical talent to become professionals through their own efforts if they are not chosen by the royal family or sent out by the church. They are probably not as successful as some scholars who can only find their own way... If they had the intellectual attributes of scholars, they would not be abandoned.

He has high intelligence and low mage talent, but his talent as a wonder maker is very much in line with the preferences of large groups.

Mages who are strong in everything are not that useful...they are too selfish.

The court wizards really like to train such subordinates.

However, these children who are not smart enough can rely on some external means to become low-level mages. If they work hard enough, they can even reach the middle level.

However, any force that has this ability will naturally have enough talented people to absorb.

Those who don’t have it, such as local nobles, how can they afford this price?

Supporting such a wizard is enough for them to support half a knight order!
Unless there is such a child within the family, the great nobles would rather invite those wizards who have been in the palace for a long time and feel that there is no way out to come to work in their own territories.

Generally, such mages will also train a few mage apprentices, but this is actually not of much use to the territory.

However, these are not a problem for Lowry.

However, he really didn’t think he needed to raise any low- to mid-level mages before…if he hadn’t been annoyed by the blockade by the Church of the Earth and the Church of Wealth in those years.

These children, even if they are apprentices, can do some rune drawing work, so they can be asked to make tents and cold-proof clothing.

Although the prospective scholars are a little bit inferior, if they work together in pairs, their work efficiency can be better than that of a single mage apprentice!
After becoming official professionals, they can also make some basic potions and common items... Although one person can only learn three at most and the production efficiency is very low, it is enough to meet Lori's needs!
At least he doesn't have to squat there and grind the stone every day.

If you want to make some things into magical materials, you have to add mana during the grinding process... Although Lowry can make a lot at a time, he always has to mess with these low-level materials halfway through the research, which still makes him a little annoyed.

Although Lowry can buy many things by paying a little more money, who knows what will happen in the future?
In addition, these children found Qingfengling after being completely disappointed, and their life goal was even just to become a clerk in the Qingfengling magic shop.

The staff directly under the Lord of Qingfeng Territory are famously well treated, and they are also given some basic training.

In this way, they can at least have the strength of an apprentice and earn enough money to support themselves. If they are lucky, they can even support their families.

Lowry only trained them as apprentices in the beginning. Anyway, grinding stones for eight hours a day would consume almost two-thirds of the apprentices' mana.

If they still want to work hard, Lowry will count them as overtime... in the form of performance-based wages.

Generally speaking, apprentices would persist until they only had one tenth of their mana left to review their lessons after a hard day.

These children are really hard-working, sincere, and very sensible.

As they spent more and more time with him, Lowry naturally gave them more care.

For example, in the wizard workshop located on the right side of his castle gate, opposite the castle knights' residence on the left, some amplification magic arrays began to be gradually added.

These children can complete the same task with only half the magic power.

What is reduced is only the spell cost, not the material crafting time.

In this way, they can gain a little more when they work overtime.

In fact, by this time, these children have been with Lowry for at least three to five years and have been able to support themselves quite well.

But the reason why many children are still working hard and exhausting every drop of their magical power, in addition to their desire to become stronger, is also the pursuit of making their family live a better life.

Some children have always hoped to apply to the lord to move their families to Qingfeng Territory after becoming official mages, just like Lori's two serious students.

Although these two students originally belonged to Qingfeng Territory... otherwise, it would be impossible for them to have 15 points of intelligence that had not been collected by the royal family.

This can be considered as a kind of invisible asset of the mage's territory.

The king gave such rich territories and abundant mineral resources to certain great wizards for free, and of course he had his own purpose.

In addition to having these mages help guard some remote territories, there are also magical resources that slowly appear in the territory with their repeated breathing of mana.

Even the simplest mana mushroom can be used to make a stamina potion that allows the knight to quickly restore his fighting power.

Although this will certainly allow the mages to earn a lot of resources, but... if there is no such mage, they may be strangled by other countries.

Moreover, once the mages begin to ponder these business principles, they will inevitably recruit apprentices and train ordinary people who are good at mining or digging herbs.

When these people grow old and can no longer keep up with the demands of the mages and have to give way to young people, they will naturally return to their hometowns... Then, the knowledge they have learned will most likely be passed on.

Now, there are naturally not so many requirements for mages.

But, a long, long time ago, when magic knowledge was still held in the hands of certain people, this was the most subtle method that the royal nobles came up with after much thought.

Of course, this open conspiracy may also make some mages dissatisfied.

Therefore, the royal nobles simply gave up all the power in the wizard's territory... For example, the rule that children with wizard talent will first be screened by the royal family and the church.

Originally, this rule was only abolished among the nobles.

This was done not only because of the mutual restraint between the royal family and the territorial nobles, but also because they were more wary of the church.

(End of this chapter)