Understand humans!

She casually glanced around the offices of other high-level association members. With previous experience as a lesson, all the association members caught in Aura's gaze straightened their backs, as if they were under a thorn in their backs. They frantically reflected on themselves in their minds to see if they had violated any discipline or if there were any loopholes in their work.

Aura withdrew his gaze and sneered.

Want to fool me?

Just because of you humans who haven't even lived a fraction of my age?

How could my Aura's mind be so simple?

Aura summoned Sheila, told her the problems the association was facing at the moment, and asked her to think of a solution.

The reason why Sheila was asked to think about it——

This is certainly not because Aura is not smart enough.

It’s because Aura understands that professional matters should be left to professionals. When it comes to targeting humans, humans who can easily understand their fellow humans are definitely more capable than demons who cannot understand humans.

This is Aura's brilliant wisdom of using humans to check and balance humans!

Plus, she has such amazing wrist strength that no one can stop her when she holds the axe with both hands!

Is there anything that San Lorenzo can’t solve?

-

Although, under the leadership of Aura, the Magic Association Academy in San Lorenzo was expanded again.

But even after the expansion, the San Lorenzo Academy can only accommodate a thousand magic apprentices.

The cost of learning magic is too high, and even if the magic taught is popular magic like "Magic that Everyone Can Practice", there are too few people who can ultimately learn it.

Out of a thousand people, probably only a hundred will be able to release magic in the end.

And among these one hundred people, only about ten are qualified to leave San Lorenzo and go to Kribi for further studies.

Among the ten people who left, only one or two were truly recognized by the Magic Association headquarters and stayed.

Most magic apprentices, after learning some theories, could only return to their hometowns to live, which did not bring much change to their lives.

So for this part of humanity, are the years spent in the magic academy meaningless?

Of course not—

As for the nine magic apprentices who left San Lorenzo but could not stay in Kribi, even though they did not pass the third-level magician exam and could not become independent magicians, the magic they brought back from Kribi was enough to change this city.

As for the ninety magic apprentices who were unable to leave San Lorenzo but were able to cast magic, they might have spent their entire lives practicing magic and still not been able to use powerful magic, but just those simple yet effective little magics could benefit the area.

As for the nine hundred magic apprentices who only understood the theory but could not cast magic, magic was indeed just a passing thing in their lives, but the traces left by magic were enough for them to use throughout their lives. In this era when most people can only write their own names, knowledge is a precious asset, even if it is only knowledge to the extent of being able to read and write.

However, what effect teaching these one thousand humans magic would have on humans themselves was obviously not something Aura considered.

After all, all she wanted was a merit, a merit that would allow her to regain power in the Continental Magic Association.

Aura didn't care what these magicians trained by the academy would do, she was only concerned with selecting them.

But just choosing is not an easy task.

"The Magic Association Academy can still accommodate too few students."

Aula was leaning his head in the minister's office, looking worried.

Talented human magicians are not so easy to find.

Of course, the most top-notch magical talents are obvious at a glance. Aura can pick out the magic power that overflows even without any teaching from among millions of people with just one glance.

But this kind of top-notch magical talent is hard to come by.

In most cases, the talents of those lower-level humans are hidden - they are not born with extraordinary magical powers, but they can understand magic theory and increase their magical powers step by step through practice.

The discovery of this kind of talent is bound to take a long time, requiring them to be constantly taught magic theory and given guidance, and then to be observed for a long time before it can be determined whether they have the talent to learn magic.

But Aura only has a thousand opportunities to be observed.

But the city of San Lorenzo itself has a population of over 20,000, and there are countless villages around it, each with several hundred people.

From these countless humans, the relatively intelligent ones are selected and then placed in an academy to study for two or three years to see whether they have talent. Those who are talented will have to study for another five or six years before they may have the ability to cast magic with their bare hands.

Therefore, in reality, less than three hundred people are able to obtain admission opportunities each year.

Each and every one of these people were personally selected by Aura after being tested.

Any one of these people is extremely precious to Aula and could be the key to his future achievements.

Aura cherishes every one of them.

She doesn't allow anyone else to touch her students.

"Lord Aura, something has happened."

"what's up?"

Silla pushed the door open and walked in, holding an open letter in her hand, her face not very good.

"The girl named Gal who you allowed to attend school last time is not coming."

"Haven't we already offered her a free place in school, but she still refuses to accept?"

Aura stood up and asked in confusion, Gal was a human girl with magical talent that she accidentally discovered when she went to the countryside to knock the sheriff last time.

Dark skin, thin bones, malnutrition - even in this state, there is still magic overflowing from his body. His talent is even better than Andro that Aura saw in the academy.

With a little training, he would be able to reach Kribi and become a great magician.

It was just that Aura left in a hurry at that time and was unable to take her directly back to San Lorenzo City. She only asked the admissions staff of the nearby Magic Association Academy to bring Gal to San Lorenzo next time when recruiting new apprentices.

She also took Gal's family situation into consideration, as they could not afford the tuition and living expenses of the Magic Association Academy, and promised to cover all expenses in San Lorenzo.

that's it--

This condition has been given.

Why would Gal refuse?

"Gar was sold by his parents to the local landowner Webers as a slave."

"Didn't you tell her parents about the admission?"

"Yes, but Gar's parents said that Master Webbers was willing to pay two silver coins, but they wouldn't get a penny for letting Gar come to the academy."

"Take me there, and I'll buy the child back."

Aura didn't get angry either, after all, she didn't understand humans very well.

The demons have no concept of parents, so Aura doesn't really understand what human parents are.

When she summoned Gar to the magic academy, perhaps she was indeed not thoughtful enough. She only asked for Gar's opinion and did not ask Gar's parents.

Can humans transfer the relationship between their own children at will?

And it can be sold for money -

Aura feels that the demons should learn from humans in how they deal with their offspring.

The demons usually don't care about the babies after giving birth, leaving them to fend for themselves. I didn't expect that they could actually be sold for a profit.

Human wisdom is sometimes worthy of praise from the demons~

Compared to Aura's calm reaction, Sheila was a little furious. She gnashed her teeth and said:

"The landlord is not willing to sell... We may have to spend a lot of money to buy the child back."

"Money, I have it."

Aura is a demon who understands the rules, especially the principle of equal exchange.

She even used the scales as a medium when performing obedience magic.

-So, at least when a normal transaction can achieve the goal, Aura will not add the other party's head to this part of the scale.

"Lord Aura, I understand, but it's not worth it."

"It's worth using the money to get a talented apprentice."

"Sir, you have already spent a lot of money on similar things. They are asking for too much. Actually, you can bargain next time..."

"Wait a minute, I'll go back and get it."

Aura obviously didn't listen to Sheila's advice.

She walked out of the Magic Association office and went straight back to her residence. She dragged out the second suitcase she brought with her from under her bed. In addition to clothes, there was a small bag containing the activity funds that Celia gave to Aura.

It was filled with gold coins.

Oh, there were also some copper and silver coins mixed in, which Aura found out from Zanze's room. Before she left, she emptied the house and took away all the money hidden in the cracks in the walls.

"Thank the goddess, I actually made wild silver coins grow in the walls, in the cabinets, and in the clothes that Zanze took off."

"Thank you for the gifts of nature."

——Before leaving, Aura thanked the goddess so much that she could use all the coins she picked up with peace of mind.

but.

The purse seemed to be much deflated.

Aura held up the purse, thoughtfully.

She didn't have a very accurate concept of money. Although she understood that it was a popular commodity in human countries, from the perspective of the demons' values, it was just a pile of stones. It couldn't be used to forge weapons and had nothing to do with magic.

In other words - useless.

However, these stones can be exchanged for a magic academy, which can allow many talented magicians to study without going hungry and can also be used to buy precious magic materials.

Thinking about it this way, these stones are still worth using.

Aura was eager to quickly replace all these dry stones with things that were useful for magic, which would be more valuable to the demons.

Aula took out another half from his shrunken purse.

The bag was deflated and a little lighter, so Aula casually threw it into the suitcase without considering how he would survive in San Lorenzo after he ran out of money.

She walked out of the house with a dozen gold coins and went to the territory of the human landlord named Webers, ready to buy Gar.

As for whether Gal is worth the price.

In Aura's eyes, Gal is certainly worth it.

In the eyes of the demons, a life with magical talent is much more valuable than a pile of stones without magic power.

Chapter 121 It's really disgusting~

Gal is the youngest child in the family, but also the least favored one.

Her two brothers hated her because she took away the little food rations in the family.

Her parents hated her. No, it would be better if her parents hated her. At least their eyes would stay on Gar.

The parents just ignored Gal.

The two older brothers always said that Gar was an unlucky guy and would bring bad luck to the village.

This is not what Gal's brother said.

Gal has been able to see things differently from other people since he was a child, and he himself has discovered this.

Nothing she saw seemed to be a good thing.

The first time she saw black gas floating out of the forest near the village, Gal was six years old. She told her parents about her discovery, but her parents didn't take it seriously. She then told other playmates in the village, but they just laughed at her for bragging.

But after a few days, magical beasts came out of the forest, broke into the village, ate many people, and destroyed a lot of crops.

Although the news that Gal saw the black air had spread throughout the village, although there were rumors circulating in the village secretly, at least no one would openly embarrass a child.

The second time that Gal saw something that no one else could see, Gal was nine years old. An adult in the village picked up a stone from the forest. The stone had a regular shape and was crystal clear. Gal discovered that no one else in the village could see the mist floating off the stone.

Gal told the adult what he had seen, but the adult wanted to sell this rare thing to the city and didn't care.

The next day, the stone disappeared and the adult fell seriously ill.

The rumor that Gal was unlucky spread throughout the village.

Later, Gal saw the ominous black aura several more times, but she never spoke of it again.

I just watched silently as the black energy turned into one or two monster disasters, and five or six strange diseases.