Before ascending to God, be a good lord

January 1, 31 a.m. Imperial time, Gyeonggi Tower, Hall of Thousand Pagodas.

Although there are still three hours left before the lunch buffet, the huge Hall of Thousand Pagodas is already occupied by children and parents. In addition to a group of non-magic children around 3-12 years old, there are also a group of younger Not big, but not short in stature, the demon-wishers gathered together.

Beginning in 998, Lant's Galloping Horse Academy will conduct two enrollments, spring and autumn. The autumn enrollment will be in July, mainly recruiting non-magic students aged 7-12, and the spring enrollment will be in late January, recruiting students under the age of 14. Ordinary demon possessor or apprentice.

According to Lant's plan, students enrolled in the spring will mainly be taught various magic skills. After reaching the intermediate level or graduating at the age of 23, they will mainly return to work in the new workshops in the enrollment area. Only the best students will stay at night. Inside Qicheng.

The students are recruited on a 1:1 basis from the retainers of the great nobles and the young demon masters trained by the Tower of Purity, with a total of 1000 students recruited every year.

The children who enroll in the fall semester are more likely to be residents of big cities such as Yeqi City, White Wolf City, and Iowa. The students come from Dragon Tooth City, the Imperial Capital, Nikolagrad, the capital of Kirislav, the capital of the Southern Kingdom, and Southeast The children of nobles from the five major cities including the Kingdom's capital are recruited on a 5:1 basis with the Demon-free students of the Tower of Purity, with a total enrollment of 1 students every year.

In other words, 500 students with demons and 1000 students without demons will be transported to Yeqi City from various magic schools in the Tower of Purity every year. Not only can they enjoy free potions provided by the major nobles, , he can still stay and work in the magic workshop in Yeqi City or the Imperial Capital in the future.

This shows that Lant not only recognizes the magical literacy of civilian students in the Imperial City, but also recognizes the concept of the Tower of Purity restricting nobles.

Although Lant's decision greatly excited the legends of the Tower of Purity, it also made the nobles of the Imperial City feel a little disadvantaged.

However, just when the Imperial City School was about to persuade Lant, they suddenly received a notice that the new workshop in the old city of the Imperial City, Yeqi City, would recruit 1 demon-supporting students from the Imperial City School in January, and at the same time recruit an additional 500 students. A student of the Demonless One.

Such benefits made the nobles in the Hall of Thousand Pagodas very excited, but what they didn't expect was the representative of Yeqi City who came to take charge of enrollment early on the morning of March 31st.

While everyone was watching eagerly, Huck Benma led a dozen knight students from Benma Academy and carried three testing instruments to the long table in the middle of the hall.

"Dear Sirs and Mentors, I am Huck Galloping Horse from Yeqi City!" As soon as Old Huck introduced himself, he immediately attracted applause from the audience.

"Are you the father of His Majesty Lant? Marquis Harker!" Grand Magister Creland blurted out.

"I asked why today's team leader is so majestic. It turns out you are here!" Another magician also said.

"Yes, Marquis Harker, you must stay for lunch today, and we must take you to try the authentic Imperial City cuisine!"

Since Lant was confirmed by the emperor to establish the kingdom at the end of the year, Huck's status has risen again. He not only won the title of Marquis of Padmilla Palace, but also received the medal of the third-class earl of the empire yesterday.

The reason why he is a third-class earl is because the higher imperial titles must have high-level ranks. Once Harker reaches the high-level, he will obtain the triple status of Marquis of the Palace of Dragon Tooth City, Marquis of the Palace of Padmilla and Marquis of the Empire at the same time. It's a done deal.

For this reason, Lant specially asked his father to come to the Hall of Thousand Towers today so that he, the future royal family of the Zhengbenma Banner, could get familiar with the old nobles of the imperial capital in advance. He even gave his father 30 more places for bribery. People's hearts. Seeing how enthusiastic everyone was, Old Huck's face glowed red and he said angrily: "Distinguished guests! Distinguished guests! It's a great honor for me to come to the Hall of Thousand Towers today!"

Sure enough, under the compliments of a group of high-ranking officials in the imperial capital, Huck immediately forgot about his mission and focused on socializing and flattering the old nobles.

Seeing how enthusiastic and humble Lant's father was, the magisters of the Imperial School went around several times. Some desperately invited him to visit their families, while others called their unmarried women to come over. Some even tried to force Huck to buy their own wine and jewelry.

Compared with the old Huck who "attracted firepower", the students on the side set up the test equipment and registration forms step by step, and started the enrollment and registration work directly.

Outside the crowd, the majestic Adams Appleby and Saffron Helen were watching everything at the scene.

Since the two experienced it in Iowa and witnessed the three-way game between the Rat God, the Orcs and the Lant, they have a deeper understanding of the Galloping Horse Plains.

Adams Appleby praised in a low voice: "His Majesty Lant is really a lord who loves balance. He can actually achieve balance in the various factions of the Imperial Capital, the Imperial Capital and other cities, and the nobles and civilians."

Shafron said with a smile: "Yes, but his balance is more about the distribution of interests. He is very targeted when he offends people. Basically, he goes to the Finance Department, as if he is In Longya City, we only choose one family to offend."

"Isn't this a wise choice out of desperation? There are three factions in the imperial capital. He must always maintain good relations with two of them, otherwise he may offend all three of them together. As for the various kingdoms in the empire, he cannot offend them at the same time. Two families.”

Adams murmured, "Obviously, this 'barbarian' of his has already thought about all this before he came to the Imperial Capital for the first time, or even before arriving at the Imperial Capital."

"But there is no doubt that the cost of making good friends with the Imperial School is the lowest and the greatest benefit," Shafren said while looking at the crowd in front of him. "The Tower of Purity will only be satisfied if it completely turns Galloping Horse College into Imperial College. Imperial College controls The Finance Department will only be satisfied if the Yeqicheng Finance Department is moved upstairs to them.

Only our Imperial School, as long as the new city area can be put into use, these children will be very satisfied when they can return to the new magic workshop. "

"Hey, this only shows that our Imperial Capital School can no longer compare with the Tower of Purity and the Imperial Capital Magic Academy!"

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While Huck was doing his best to flatter the seniors of the Imperial School, Lant was in the main building of the First Magic School in the Imperial City, interviewing 200 teachers selected by the Tower of Purity to be sent to Galloping Horse Academy.

According to the calculations of the Tower of Purity, 2000 students each year require 100 teachers. Less than 9 of them were sent there before September, so now 30 of the 200 will be sent there.

According to Lant's request, he had to interview everyone individually, so all the candidates were waiting in the corridor outside the principal's office. Some of them were immersed in reading, trying to recite some magic while waiting. knowledge; some approached the orderly students, wondering what questions Lant would ask;

Others looked at the playground downstairs, where nearly 2000 students were waiting to pass the admissions test for Galloping Horse College.