Chapter 699

In a few days, we will enter the new calendar year 2533. The construction of the Aix Combat School started at the end of September. It took three months and was finally completed.

The Battle School is located in the Dragon Forest in the hinterland of the Principality of Augustus. In order to facilitate management and send the dwarf craftsmen to the place, he immediately set up a teleportation array.

Ryan teleported directly from Glamorgan Castle to the school.

He appeared in a spacious teleportation hall, surrounded by a group of spear-wing knights guarding him. When he saw Ren, he saluted in unison. The hall is located on the fourth floor of the teacher building, the lower three floors are the teachers' offices, and the highest fifth floor is the principal's office.

Wren had visited many times during the school's construction, so he was familiar with it.

He went up to the top floor, pushed the door into the spacious and bright office, and met Master Oroin. Ever since the prototype of the Battle School appeared and it was getting closer and closer to completion, Master Oroin left Glamorgan Castle and stayed here for a long time, watching the school being built day by day.

The arrangement in the principal's office is very simple, with only a desk and a set of sofas.

At this moment, Master Oroin was not sitting behind the table. He was standing on the balcony overlooking the entire school. When he noticed someone coming in, he turned his head and smiled and said, "Ren, you are here."

"Grandmaster."

Ren walked up to the balcony to greet, and then looked out.

A not-so-big school came into view, covering an area of ​​less than a hundred acres, with a rectangular square in the middle, a statue of a goddess of magic standing, surrounded by seven or eight buildings, and their functions can be roughly seen at a glance , Teaching buildings, dormitories, canteens, magic laboratories, meditation rooms, alchemy rooms, etc.

The building of the school is in a minimalist style. Except for the teacher's building, there are only three floors at most. The shape is boxy like a box, and there are no decorations on the walls. Everything is practical.

The whole school is protected by a tall city wall.

The main material of the more than ten-meter-high city wall is rock, and a large amount of magic alloy is mixed inside the wall, and the rune array is engraved to form a super-large-scale "advanced sound and light barrier", which hides the school. A layer of camouflage can be seen.

When necessary, the city wall can also inspire a protective shield to resist attack.

The cost of building the city wall and magic circle alone reached 1.8 million gold shields, accounting for more than 60% of the construction cost of the entire school.

Outside the city wall is the endless virgin forest.

The area of ​​the Dragon Forest is equivalent to an empire province. The terrain is precipitous, and it gets higher and higher from north to south. The school is built between the mountains, and there are peaks on the east and west sides. From a distance, the snow-capped peaks are extremely beautiful. magnificent.

The lair of the copper dragon Galaderos is on one of these peaks.

Rennes chose to build the school here, in addition to being inaccessible, remote and secluded, it was also because of Galaderos' strong recommendation.

Today, the school has been built, and the diligent and responsible dwarf craftsmen are cleaning up the construction waste.

As long as it is cleaned up, teaching tools and household items are moved in, and the ordinary workers hired from the territory get used to it for a few days, the school can officially start.

Oroin looked away from the school and landed on Ren.

He smiled and said: "Ren, you are doing very well. I have checked the inside and outside of the school carefully in the past few days, and found that you are more thoughtful than me. Aix's style is different from the academy in my impression. I thought it was very simple, but after seeing it, I realized that this is the real school.”

"Master is satisfied." Ren waved his hand modestly.

His design actually copied a part of his alma mater from his previous life, and there is nothing surprising about it, but it is more suitable for a standardized education model. And most of the magic academies in this world are still based on master-apprentice inheritance, with different concepts, so Master Oroin feels refreshed.

However, the key to education lies in people, and hardware only provides the foundation.

Ren said: "Master, how about the school teachers calling? The students have waited."

The enrollment work was completed a month ago. There are more than one hundred students from all over the empire and the Principality of Augustus, all aged between twelve and sixteen. Each of them has been screened by him, and their talents are far beyond ordinary people. , can definitely complete the first soul change and become a wizard.

In addition to talents, the students' personalities and backgrounds have also passed the test.

The job of recruiting students was entrusted to the Logos family. Among the hundreds of candidate students they sent, there were more than a dozen people with evil intentions lurking.

Ren didn't investigate which forces they came from, and directly eliminated them.

More than a hundred students are now living in a hotel not far from the castle, waiting for the school to start.

"I've already found the school teacher." Ou Luoyin smiled lightly, "They are all combat wizards, one legendary high-level, two intermediate-level and three elementary-level. There are also eight below the legendary level, all from the combat school The outstanding one is good enough to be a teacher."

Ren couldn't help admiring: "The master's appeal is really strong."

Battle wizards are very rare, compared to the number of wizards in other schools, they are almost negligible. Apart from himself and Oroin, there are only a handful of well-known battle wizards in the world.

"hehe……"

Ou Luoyin smiled confidently, but said cautiously: "I have inspected the character of these people, basically there is no problem. However, I will let them meet with you before the school starts, and you will be the final check. "

"Okay, master."

Ren nodded, but his heart was slightly trembling.

He never told Master Ou Luoyin that he could discern the good and evil of people's hearts, but some traces were exposed during the enrollment process, which could not be seen by others, but he couldn't hide it from a powerful holy soul wizard.

"After the school starts in Aix, I will send a team of Ultramarines and two teams of Spearwing Knights to guard the school, but they will not be permanent personnel, and they will change their guards every month. Master, what do you think?" Ray En respectful request.

Ou Luoen waved his hands casually, "You can decide this kind of thing yourself."

Obviously, he doesn't care about that.

Ren is also aware of the character of this holy soul wizard, who is indifferent to fame and fortune. As long as he can carry forward the combat school, he will not interfere with other things in the school.

But he still had to seek consent in advance to express his respect and attitude towards the master.

The two chatted for a long time on the balcony.

The topics are all related to the school, including teaching, training, school regulations, etc., which have been discussed many times before, and the most important thing is to develop a branch of the combat school.

Relying on his ability to identify the conflict and fusion degree of demon souls, Rennes opened up several stable branches of schools based on the words that Ren persuaded Master Oroin, and combined with the talents of the students, cultivated a group of combat wizards with outstanding strength as forerunner.

A branch of a school must at least be able to be promoted to legendary.

This requires at least ten demon souls, and it is impossible to buy a suitable demon soul at one time. It needs to be selected from a pile of demon souls. A branch may need to buy hundreds or even thousands of demon souls.

Half of the initial funds of five million gold shields will be spent on the purchase of demon souls.

The demonic souls fused by more than a hundred students, as well as the soul-melting seeds, potions, alchemy materials, food, clothing, housing, etc., are all paid by the school.

After school starts, the golden shield will flow out like water.

Speaking of money, Master Ou Luoyin suddenly sighed: "I have never felt that the golden shield is so important in my life. When the school's situation stabilizes, I will go out to hunt demon souls."

This benevolent holy soul wizard was a little worried.

Ren snickered.

Making money is not easy. Of course, it is much easier for a holy soul wizard to make money than ordinary people, but it is not easy to earn millions of gold shields.

With the strength of Master Oroin, killing the monsters of the holy rank can be said to be easy.

However, it is hard to find holy demon souls, and it is even harder to find people who are willing to pay for holy demon souls. People who need holy-rank demon souls are generally holy-rank powerhouses, and they will choose to hunt and kill them by themselves. They are rarely willing to spend a lot of money to buy them, and they may not have so much money.

Therefore, the market for holy demon souls is very small, far inferior to that of legendary demon souls.

And the value of a legendary demon soul is not as high as imagined. If the additional elements are mediocre, it may only be worth 20,000 to 30,000 gold shields, and the worst is even less than 10,000 gold shields.

All in all, making money is hard!

Otherwise, my teacher wouldn't have been troubled by Wedzeland's debts for hundreds of years.

"Master, don't worry. There are still nearly three million gold shields in the school's accounts, which is enough to last for several years." Ren persuaded: "I will continue to invest when the money is spent."

Ou Luoyin shook his head: "You can't pay for it all by yourself..."

"As long as the combat school can be carried forward, a few million gold shields are nothing." Ren's eyes were full of sincerity, "Leave the money to me, master, and focus on the school."

Ou Luoyin looked at Ren seriously, suddenly smiled, nodded and said: "Okay."

He said only one word.

However, Ren heard the implication, and couldn't help but be overjoyed.

What Master Oroin promised was not only about the school and money, but also his position in the Supreme Council, the vote he held in his hand!

The acquisition was successful!

These millions of gold shields are too worthwhile, and the banknote ability is so easy to use!

Of course, it also depends on the follow-up development of Battle School. If Master Oroin is dissatisfied, or finds that he was just perfunctory and failed to develop a strong school branch, he may change his position at any time and withdraw that vote.

Ryan decided to make persistent efforts and take out more chips.

"Master," he looked at the busy dwarf craftsmen in the school, and said in a low voice: "I currently have a plan to open up a new continent and build a new city, which is expected to start within half a year. After it is built, Aix School can Open a branch school in the city and openly recruit students, is Master interested?"

Oroin was very surprised.

He immediately guessed what Ryan was thinking, "You want to rebuild Xinxiangcheng?"

"Yes." Ren replied: "It's not just reconstruction, but a brand new city, with a larger area and more investment than Xinxiangcheng."

Ou Luoyin shook his head again and again, and noticed that Ren was talking about "my" plan, not Wezeland's plan. Obviously, it was Ren who was pushing it alone.

He thought for a long time, then sighed: "This is not a trivial matter, does Anxi support it?"

"I only raised my idea with the teacher once, and the teacher neither supported nor opposed it. I don't know yet that I have started to implement it."

Ren said truthfully: "But the teacher promised that if the Scourge and Xinxiang Floating City attack my city, he will take action to avenge the dead Wezeland wizard."

He looked at the founder of the combat school, and said solemnly: "If the master can also make a move, then I hereby promise that in the future, I will build another combat school in my city, and I will pay for all the expenses. The pattern is similar."

Ou Luoyin did not immediately agree, "tell me about your plan in detail."

"OK."

Ren explained everything about the situation, mentioning the two holy rank powerhouses Kuilu and Izzet, followers of the dark girl Elise, potential allies of the blood elves, the teleportation hub he built, plans to invite the dwarves to build the city, etc. Wait, except for the Thundercast Heavenly Soldiers, there is almost no concealment.

The more Ou Luoyin heard it, the more surprised he was, that there were drow and blood elves participating, and he was also amazed at Ren's generosity.

This is a big long-term plan.

The initial investment in the construction of the city alone is more than 10 million gold shields, and the subsequent investment will increase, and it may not be able to stop at 20 to 30 million gold shields.

From the pioneering plan, he really saw Rennes' financial resources and ambitions.

Ou Luoyin took a deep look at Ren: "I agree."

Before Ryan was happy, he said again: "However, I need to have an interview with Anxi, and based on the results of my conversation with him, I will decide how much I support you."

Ren expressed his understanding that this involves a possible battle with the Scourge, so we must be cautious.

"Master, please."

Oroin turned around and disappeared. Ren sensed that he had entered the legendary circle downstairs and returned to Modu.

Ren turned around and scanned the school, found his target, opened a random door but didn't go in, and said, "Your Excellency Blestein, please come and talk."

A stout dwarf came out of any door.

In the cold winter season, he only wore a linen blouse, and he didn't seem to feel cold at all. The fiery red beard covered most of his face, only his huge nose and a pair of eyes were exposed, which hung down to his chest and tied into several braids, holding a metal staff in his hand.

"Ren, what's the matter?" Blestein raised his head and asked, "Are you going to settle the last wage?"

The dwarf's tone and gesture reminded Ryan of a contractor.

However, it is not wrong to say that he is a contractor.

Ryan has cooperated with Blastan twice, and he knows his upright temper very well, took out a box full of gold shields, and said with a smile: "Yes, this is 10,000 gold shields, please take it away, Lord Blasto. "

Seeing the golden shield, the dwarf's eyes lit up.

Blestein carefully counted the golden shields in the box twice, while Ren waited patiently beside him.

It was not until more than ten minutes later that the dwarves happily said: "Ten thousand gold shields is not a lot. Ren, you are a straightforward person, and there are few employers with the same quality as you in the lava castle. If there are still projects Don't forget to contact me."

"Of course I can trust the craftsmanship and craftsmanship of Master Bulerstein." Ren first complimented, "I happen to have another project in hand, which is many times larger than Fort Vajra and the Battle School of Aix, and the reward is natural also……"

He was interrupted before he finished speaking, Blestein's eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to ask: "How big is this project?"

Ren replied softly: "About 30 million gold shields, maybe 50 million, or even hundreds of millions."

Blestein was stunned as if struck by lightning.