Wizard's Journey

Chapter 535 Knight-Teaching School

The key to this assessment is the population size relative to previous levels!

A month later.

Holding the data and information collected from Mothfrog City, Green racked his brains, feeling somewhat powerless in this regard, despite his expertise in witchcraft.

"The murder rate must be reduced!"

Given that the birth rate and death rate cannot be changed in a short period of time, Green came to this conclusion.

In cities outside the less prosperous central region of the Holy Tower, there are quite a few wandering knights who make a living by risking their lives. This assessment lasts for fifty years, which is roughly the time it takes for an ordinary human to replace two generations of young and middle-aged laborers. This means that an infant at this time will become a grandfather when the Green assessment ends.

"Gagaga, young master! Outside Mothfrog City, there are people everywhere quarrying stones and building roads in the mountains. Did you organize that, young master?"

"Senior Brother Green."

Vivian has returned with Xiao Ba.

"Um."

Green responded, his mind still preoccupied with how to increase the population.

"Haha, young master, how long do you plan to take to repair this road?"

Little Eight landed on Green's shoulder and asked.

"The first phase of the plan should be completed within three to five years. How's your work with Vivian going? What's the deal with those bandits?"

Vivian said, "They were just a group of bandits composed of wandering knights. After we couldn't recruit them, Ba Hongniwei and I did as you said, senior brother, and drove those guys to Lingwei City."

"Um."

Green nodded, then suddenly asked the steward behind him, "How many gold coins do we have available in the accounting department right now?"

After doing some calculations, the accountant said in a deep voice, "Sir, the gold coins we raised earlier all need to be used as wages for the road construction workers according to the plan. Your instructions are that no one should be owed even a single copper coin in wages, so we can only raise about three hundred gold coins now."

How many days are left until this month's tax payment deadline?

Green asked again.

"There are still seven days left. By then, we should be able to collect about 1,200 gold coins. According to usual practice, it takes about 1,000 gold coins to operate within the city. At that time, we will have a maximum of 200 extra gold coins available for transfer."

Green frowned and said, "We can find other ways to deal with the gold coins, but we can't delay any longer about opening the Knights' School. Issue a notice that all children in the city between the ages of seven and sixteen must attend the Knights' School, and those who disobey will be punished as thieves."

After speaking, Green handed over the plan for the first orphan in the city to the steward. As an orphan who did not know his own background, Green had an indescribable sympathy for the other orphans.

Green had already decided on his instructors for the Cavaliers' training school.

Due to limited resources, and because Green's school was only established to prepare for a possible war between ordinary humans that might occur a decade or so later, the knight-training school only offered two courses.

The first course was the Knight Combat Course, with instructors being elderly knights from the city guard.

These old knights often lost their ability to fight, but their knightly experience could be passed down. It was Green who spent money to increase job opportunities and support these veterans.

Otherwise, these old knights who only carry out orders to kill will become a menace to the city or even become wandering knights once they leave the control of the city guard and lose their source of livelihood.

These children, nurtured over several years or even decades, will become the new generation of power in Mothfrog City. At that time, the much stronger Mothfrog City, led by Green, will be able to reorganize an even more powerful knight legion and reclaim the iron mine and the blood agate mine.

The second course was a course on literacy and etiquette.

The purpose of literacy is self-evident; the transmission of knowledge cannot be separated from written records. Etiquette is the most long-term, fundamental, and best way to reduce crime rates. However, selecting instructors is quite difficult.

In such a backward little town, there were no so-called impoverished nobles.

After thinking for a long time, Green finally thought of someone: Little Eight!

The thrill of managing students would definitely satisfy Xiao Ba, and sure enough, when Yi mentioned this to Xiao Ba, Xiao Ba was absolutely ecstatic.

"Gah gah gah gah! Young master, really? You're telling the truth!?"

Green nodded and said, "Go and get ready. Keep a close eye on the wild kids in this small town."

"Hehehe, my dear young master Grin, you can rest assured..."

Little Eight flew away.

"But sir, as you requested last time, I went to talk to that merchant, but he was unwilling to rent the manor for the price of one hundred gold coins you mentioned."

The accountant was in a difficult position.

"How much does he want?"

Green frowned and asked.

"The merchant said that if you, sir, could recommend his daughter to the wizard who recruits wizarding apprentices at the Nine-Headed Wrath Wizarding Academy three years from now, ensuring her admission as a wizarding apprentice, he would give you the manor as a personal gift, and also pay you this amount as a reward."

The accountant held up five fingers, beaming.

Humph……

Green nodded and said calmly, "Arrange for him to meet with me immediately. If there are any other businessmen with similar requests, bring them over as well."

Green decided to give these businessmen some "tips and tricks".

While this could be harmful to their descendants who might not be suited to the path of wizardry, it at least satisfies the mutual needs of both sides for the time being.

And who knows, one or two wizards might actually emerge from among these people.

From Green's perspective as a formal wizard, wizard apprentices and ordinary humans are the same: short-lived and constantly changing. The number of humans and wizard apprentices is merely a means to create more wizards.

Thus, the rigorous trials of both the Light Wizard Academy and the Dark Wizard Academy become easier to understand.

……

Three years later.

Three years may be a long time for ordinary people in a small town. The stone road from the town to the Bengyashan gold mine has been mostly completed, with only the last small section remaining.

As miners continuously extracted gold, the first merchants from afar, drawn by the scent of profit, discovered this small town and traveled great distances to engage in commodity and gold trade, bringing resources from the distant world to the town's residents.

People from towns and villages near Mothfrog City began to flock to the city in large numbers, and the original small city has undergone significant changes compared to three years ago.

But three years is nothing to a formal wizard like Green; it seems to have passed in the blink of an eye.

In Green's makeshift laboratory.

"What exactly is this material?"

Green had been taking time to study this strange material that he had bought from the Sixth Ring Holy Tower for ten Witch Essences.

This thing is not a complete metal. It has a hard structure and can continuously gather small pieces of metal to absorb energy. It has no soul and is not a living thing. It contains an unknown, extremely weak energy magnetic field.

Green discovered that the material seemed to grow a little as it continued to absorb metal.

But apart from that, the unknown material remained unchanged, and Green determined that the faint energy magnetic field was a special current, which also seemed to have a specific frequency, representing some kind of information.

Green felt that the material did not resemble any natural substance.

Finally, Green made up his mind to "dissect" this material to see if its internal material was the same as its external material.

As the sharp scalpel sliced ​​through Green's wrist, something soft seemed to be cut away beneath the hard exterior. Then, after a burst of blue light and electricity, Green discovered a broken, square card, no bigger than a fingernail.

At the same time, due to the destruction of the card, the material's weak magnetic field disappeared.

"What is this? It's so exquisite!"

Green stared at the two kinds of symbols densely intersecting on the square card, arranged in a seemingly orderly manner, as if they possessed some kind of hidden regularity, which was quite incredible.

Without a doubt, this is a highly intelligent artificial creation, and its creation may very well be as sophisticated and civilized as that of a wizard.

Boom!Boom!Boom!

"Lord City Lord, the wizards from the Nine-Headed Wrath Wizard Academy have arrived."

Green's thoughts were interrupted, bringing him back to reality from the experiment. Only then did he remember that he had come to the wizarding academy to select wizarding apprentices, a once-a-decade event.

"Okay, I understand."

Green temporarily put aside his research and left the room.

After a brief welcoming ceremony, Green looked at the long line of people waiting for inspection outside the city lord's mansion and suddenly had a flash of inspiration: increasing the residents' wealth would also increase their chances of becoming wizard apprentices.

After all, for impoverished towns and villages, not everyone is willing to gamble with a single gold coin on whether their child has 'wizard talent'.

In relatively wealthy cities, people are undoubtedly more likely to gamble on this irreversible and irreversible path of wizardry.

(End of this chapter)