Alien world

Chapter 1222 Chapter 144. New Liberty City School
A population of 300,000 supports nearly 30,000 soldiers, a ratio of one-tenth. Their lords are warmongers at least.

However, Annan had a sufficient excuse: eight-tenths of his soldiers were ordinary people who could only use magic muskets.

If the private soldiers maintained by the nobles and the town militias were counted in other territories, the number would not be much less than that of the Free City.

And Annan can afford it. Not to mention 30,000 soldiers, even if everyone was a soldier, Annan can still afford it. If you can't afford it, you should reflect on whether you have worked hard to develop your territory.

"Sister, where is my speech?"

"Still in your study."

Annan ran upstairs and found that someone had left the speech on the table in the lounge. He picked it up and rushed to school without stopping to witness the completion of the new school building.

In fact, the school still had some classrooms left that had not been completed and would take a few days to complete. But it wouldn’t affect the classes anyway, so Annan simply put them on the same day.

The new Liberty City designed by Eli Stonecrush carried too much ambition, resulting in a lot of overspending. The required area was expanded again and again, even exceeding the floating range of three arcane energy cores.

This is the result of being forced to move out of the dormitory.

In return, the school occupies an area larger than the industrial area, becoming the largest area in Liberty City, and its appearance can be described as a work of art.

Ily Gravel designed each college with its own characteristics: six tall buildings are arranged in a fan shape, vaguely facing the city lord's palace in the distance, as if guarding the heart of Liberty City.

The magic academy on the far left looks like an ancient castle. Its towering towers reach into the sky. Standing at the school gate and looking up, you can just see the Mage Tower rising from a corner of the academy, as if it were a part of it.

The adjacent Warrior Academy is built with dark grey granite, with a rough and solid appearance. In front of the academy is a circular plaza that imitates a gladiatorial arena, with long stone strips at the edge serving as stands.

The Ranger Academy fully demonstrates the aesthetics of the other half of Eli Stonecrush's bloodline - like a huge green church, the architectural style is perfectly integrated with nature, as if it is a part of nature. The walls are covered with lush vines and mosses, and there is even a winding stream flowing in front of the academy.

The Political Science Academy is solemn and magnificent, with white marble as its main structure. There is a row of tall colonnades on both sides of the front gate, and in front of the gate is a huge sculpture of a map of the world of Allen.

The Military Academy is like an open book standing up, thus creating a playground that is larger than that of all the academies combined.

The School of Life... was like a three-dimensional commercial street, with shops opening their doors in different directions, an alchemy room, a library, a glass house, a farmland planted on a roof, a tree house growing out of the soil, and even a magic locomotive... It reminded Annan of the stacked mountains in Montreal.

The six colleges together form the new Liberty City School, which is expected to accommodate 6,000 students at the same time.

It’s hard to imagine that it only took three months in total - efficiency has always been Liberty City’s advantage.

Hundreds of teachers and students from the old school stood in the open space, watching Annan walk up to the makeshift platform.

Annan took out his speech, glanced at it, then raised his head, scanned the student group, and locked his sight on Cathy who was standing in the front row.

"slightly……"

She stuck out her tongue at Annan.

Annan withdrew his gaze and read out the speech he had prepared the night before:

"The magic train called Liberty City is carrying all of us towards the future (what a big train). You are students of Liberty City (I don't want to be a student). Just like the morning sunshine (I don't want to get up), you represent hope (I don't think so). You..."

Annan paused because the back part was blocked by the graffiti of a ghost face drawn by Cathy.

Annan simply put down his speech and looked around at the students in the audience: "My wish is to build a free city where everyone can live and work in peace and contentment, and you will be the ones who will make my wish come true."

"Next, please allow our Vice Principal Swarlow to give a speech."

Annan made room for Mr. Swarlow who was standing nearby.

Mr. Swarovski glanced at him, dragging his cloak and walking to the podium like a big bat: "Your lord has wasted too much time. I declare the speech over. All students are requested to report to the new campus tomorrow morning." The students looked at each other in confusion, and then applauded at the same time.

"Cathy!"

After the breakup, Annan caught Cathy who was about to run away.

Cathy, whose collar was grabbed, seemed to have her neck locked, with only her head sticking out. She looked at Annan pitifully: "It's none of Cathy's fault, it's... Ivana who taught me to do this!"

Ivana beside him sighed slightly, "Lord Annan, it's me."

"Do you think I will believe it? Ivana is so outstanding, how could she do such a thing? Come home with me and let Big Sister take care of you!"

Annan pulled Cathy, who looked sad but was actually smiling from ear to ear, and walked towards the City Lord's Mansion.

Ivana held the magic mirror, standing there, watching Annan and Cathy walk away alone...

Annan suddenly stopped again, returned to Ivana, and took her hand: "Sister was talking about you yesterday, you should go back with us."

As soon as Cathy brought the two little ones back to the City Lord's Mansion, she pulled Changyin and ran to Idyllia's office.

"Sister Idilia!"

Annan handed the two of them to his eldest sister and picked up the admission notice of the New Liberty City School placed aside and started to read it casually.

In the evening, Cathy and Ivana, who had played all day, curled up on the sofa in the lounge and fell asleep. Annan and the eldest sister sat beside them, listening to their subordinates report the number of people who registered on the first day.

The Warrior Academy and Ranger Academy had the largest number of applicants, at 663 and 511 respectively, followed by the Military Academy at 359. The Political Academy and Magic Academy had slightly fewer applicants, with 114 for the former and only 68 for the latter... after all, magic requires talent.

"There are 13 more people applying for the School of Life."

"130 people?" Annan asked.

"13 people, no one is very interested in the School of Life..."

Not to mention the three upper academies that train professionals, even the lower academies of politics and military affairs aim to train officials, and as for the academy of life... people have no idea what they can learn.

But in fact, the School of Life is the most complicated, covering everything from business and trade to basic knowledge.

Annan thought for a moment and said, "Don't we still have so many farmers? Send them over after the autumn harvest."

……

When the official came to find Hunter and Jack with the registration book, the two stood there in a daze.

Hunter didn't respond, so Jack asked tentatively, "Sir, I just want to be a farmer, why do I need to know how to read?"

“Learning is the ladder to progress.”

"Will I become a noble after studying?"

"No, but you will be different."

"what is that?"

“Become a literate farmer.”

(End of this chapter)