Imperial Crown

After hearing the news about his servant, Link didn't even sleep much at night. Before dawn the next day, he took his servant to a building not far outside Eagle City.

This building occupies an area that is no less than that of the Arena in Eagle Town. Outside is a towering wall and an iron gate. Behind the gate is a square large enough for thousands of people to exercise together. At the end of the square is a four-story stone main building. The windows are all made of crystal clear glass.

On the lintel of the main building is written: "Griffith Comprehensive College".

Construction began on the building a year ago, along with thousands of homes in several surrounding blocks.

Only families who have purchased these homes will have their children eligible to attend the school, and today is the day the school opens for registration.

Just to get his children into school early, Link came here early in the morning.

In fact, as a knight, he had the privilege to send the child here directly, but Link thought it was just for admission, and his family was not unqualified, so why bother using favors?

But now, he regrets it.

Because there are too many people!

Civilians and businessmen all mix together. It can be clearly distinguished by their clothes and accents that there are many outsiders sneaking in here.

Even the host of the arena, Engla, was inside.

Link was suddenly in a trance.

What's going on? Could it be that instead of signing up for school today, gold bars are being distributed?

Otherwise, why would there be so many people!

At this moment, Fiona, who was sitting in the lobby on the first floor, was feeling numb when looking at the surging crowd.

Raven is the honorary principal of this Griffith Comprehensive College, while Fiona is the actual person in charge and is also responsible for today's registration.

In order to cater for this occasion, Fiona specially changed into a formal dress and asked Patty to help her dress up.

Now her long silver-white hair is spread over her shoulders in a very orderly manner, and glasses as thick as books are placed on the bridge of her nose. Although she no longer needs this after becoming a magician, she still habitually finds a pair of plain glasses to wear. superior.

The eyes hidden behind the glasses are pure and intellectual, and the thin lips are slightly pursed.

He was wearing a black turtleneck woolen jacket, black slim-fitting trousers, and a pair of brown Tireney leather boots.

Overall, he looks like a teacher who teaches and educates people.

Originally, she was quite confident in her outfit, but when she saw the huge crowd of people outside, she gradually felt uneasy.

This makes it impossible to cover up the youthful taste on the face, but instead gives off a feeling of weakness and contrast, pretending to be mature.

But now, things have come, and there is no reason to back down. She can only bite the bullet and wait, hoping that there will be fewer people when it officially starts.

But this was obviously not possible. As the sun gradually rose, there were several more people at the door.

The gate opened and parents waiting to sign up poured in, almost half of the playground was packed.

"Let the people in." Fiona swallowed and glanced at the guard next to her.

The guard opened the door and shouted loudly: "Enter one by one, don't mess around!"

Soon, the first person walked in.

He looked to be in his forties, with a philistine and flattering smile on his face, his spine arched, and holding a leather bag in his hand, he walked up to Fiona: "Hello, Mr. Principal!"

Fiona wanted to tell him that she was just the acting principal, but she couldn't speak. She could only click on the seat opposite: "Have you brought all the information?"

"Bring it, bring it!" The man sat down and immediately took out a thick stack of documents from his bag: "My son is very good! He once studied in the school affiliated with Asbell College. During his enrollment, He gets the evaluation of outstanding students every year, and..."

Fiona was so noisy that she had a headache. She raised her head and glared at him. The man immediately closed his mouth.

Looking at the parchment in her hand, Fiona frowned: "Your son was born in 1179 and is already 17 years old, but our recruitment standard is for children under 15 years old, you..."

She wanted to say, "Your son does not meet the standards," but this sentence was too cruel to the father who came to line up early in the morning, and she wanted to change it to a softer wording.

But the man misunderstood. He held the package in front of him to cover it, reached out and took out a money bag: "I understand, I understand, this is a little personal thought for you!"

The purse is not small and heavy. There are at least 30 gold coins in it.

"Take it back." A solemn look flashed in Fiona's eyes.

But the man thought it was Fiona who was thin-skinned, so he picked up the money bag and stuffed it into Fiona's hand: "You're welcome, it's just some souvenirs..."

This can be regarded as causing trouble.

After several years of experience, Fiona's social fear level has been reduced a lot, but she can only talk to people face to face without panicking. Seeing that the man's hand was about to be stuffed into her arms, she suddenly became stressed.

Almost subconsciously, she chanted a few syllables in her mouth, and magic lines lit up in front of her.

Immediately afterwards, water as thick as a wooden barrel spurted out and hit the man's chest. The man was pushed backwards before he could even scream, knocking over the chair with a bang and smashing the glass door to the ground. The debris smashed into the crowd again, overwhelming everyone and causing a burst of wailing!

Fiona was stunned for a moment, suppressed her embarrassment, and pushed up her glasses: "Next one."

There was silence.

Even the guards next to him were stunned.

After a long time, someone screamed: "Magician——"

Then he immediately covered his mouth.

The people around looked at each other, and saw the incomparable shock in each other's eyes.

That was a magician, a legendary magician, who many people had never seen in their lives, and now he appeared in front of them alive, and he was the principal of this school!

This, this school, how good must it be!

With the previous experience of that man, the originally chaotic crowd immediately lined up in three neat rows. Everyone who entered also whispered, and didn't even dare to look at Fiona, for fear that they would also be blasted out by magic.

Didn't you see that unlucky guy being carried out with blood all over his body?

The team progressed quite slowly, and the people in the queue were quite bored. Two people, one tall and one short, started chatting.

The tall man was a little excited: "I was a little worried that Baron Raven might just create a gimmick, but I didn't expect that a magician would become the principal. It seems that the news I heard before is true!"

"It seems that you came here because of that news." The short man said: "You are too worried. Baron Raven's reputation is more real than gold."

Raven's rise was too fast and lacked available manpower. This was not a secret in the eyes of those who were interested. This academy was said to be a place dedicated to training talents for Baron Raven.

Including the two of them, a considerable number of people present at this time were merchants from all over the Nord Province, and they all came for this reason.

You know, Baron Raven currently has only 4 knights under his command. If they can graduate from here, enter the core circle of the Baron, and be canonized as knights, then the whole family will usher in a leap!

Even if not, then becoming an official in the Raven territory in the future is much better than being a businessman.

"By the way, have you bought the house?" asked the tall man.

"How could I not buy it?" The short man said, "If I don't buy a house, my child won't be eligible for admission!"

The tall man laughed and complained a little, "It's just that the price is a bit expensive. A house costs more than 120 gold coins, which is not lower than the house prices in the upper city of Monen City!"

"120 gold coins is considered high? When I bought it, I spent 157 gold coins." The short man said with a smile, "If you ask me, your business should not be big. I hope the house price is higher."

"Why do you say that?" The tall man was stunned.

The short man counted on his fingers and said, "We have bought a house, but there are still many people who haven't bought one. Think about it, when our children grow up, we can sell the house and not only make back the tuition, but also make extra money."

"It's a pity that Baron Raven is still restricting the purchase of houses. Each family can only buy one house. He really doesn't know how to do business."

"If it is relaxed, this will be a big business opportunity!"

Just as the two of them were chatting, Fiona accepted another student. Looking at the list on hand, she was a little dazed for a while.

Master Raven's prediction came true again.

In fact, at the beginning, when designing the "buy a house to enroll" plan, Fiona raised questions.

In her opinion, the foreign merchants attracted by this plan can indeed barely take over the economic trend and employment space of Raven's territory in the "post-competition era", because when merchants buy houses, it is inevitable that some of them will open industries locally.

But Raven's strategy of limiting each family to only one house runs counter to this prospect.

Raven explained at the time that part of this was political considerations. Most of the children of merchant families, if not all, were definitely speculators, and their loyalty to Raven in the future was not completely reliable.

So it was necessary to give up part of it to local residents, so that students who were born and raised here and trained by themselves were the most trustworthy.

At the same time, this also took into account the economic aspect.

"Investment, consumption, and export" are the three driving forces for economic growth.

Raven built houses around the school and Eagle City, and continued to build large-scale projects, which was an investment behavior, allowing money to flow into the market and into the hands of everyone in the territory.

As for exports, Raven's three factories were running day and night, and all kinds of products were being sold steadily.

What is most lacking now is consumption, especially consumption within the territory, which is growing very slowly - relying solely on foreign merchants and nobles will not last long.

So Raven has to limit purchases, otherwise if merchants are allowed to drive up housing prices, a large part of the money in the market will flow into real estate, and consumption will inevitably decrease, thus posing a huge threat and impact on other real economies.

Fiona had not yet fully understood Raven's economic considerations, but she had seen through the political considerations.

Even with the purchase restriction policy, one-third of the students she had accepted were still children of merchants.

If there were no purchase restrictions, I'm afraid local civilians would never have a chance in their lives.

Just then, a cry of surprise rang out, and Fiona looked up and saw two cavalrymen in full helmets and armor riding tall horses outside the school.

Fiona breathed a sigh of relief: "Finally they're here."

Not only the two cavalrymen came, but more than 20 light infantrymen lined up behind them and began to maintain order outside the door, asking the vendors who were hawking along the street to shut up and go away, clearing the road that was almost blocked.

The people who were driven and taught a lesson did not show much disgust. Instead, they looked at the two cavalrymen on horseback with admiration, longing and envy in their eyes.

Especially the male knight.

He wore a brown-red round leather soft hat on his head, a pair of sunglasses produced by the second factory in Xuefeng Town on his face, and a gray-white one-shoulder cloak draped diagonally on his shoulders, which looked like the wings of an eagle under the sun.

The upper body was a half-length breastplate made of fine steel, with an exquisite and fierce eagle eye pattern printed on the chest, and a blue cotton uniform inside.

On one side of his waist was a leather whip, on the other side was a steel eagle feather long sword, on the lower body was brown-yellow breeches, on his feet were black barbed boots, and the mount under his crotch was pitch black, tall and strong like a monster, which was the "Black Blood Colt" that was now famous in the Eagle Territory and was said to be obtained from the Bloody Highlands.

Under the knees of the Black Blood Colt, a thin-waisted hound with a black background and red flowers was sticking out its tongue and staring at everyone viciously.

This dog is called "Son of Hell", commonly known as "Never Say Die", fierce and sturdy.

The crowd crowded together and whispered.

"Is this the Hawkeye Guard?"

"Look at the hat and breastplate, there's no mistake."

"Tsk, I thought Baron Raven made this just to seize power from local sheriffs, but I didn't expect it to be so impressive!"

"In the future, I don't ask my child to become a knight, but I'll be satisfied if he can become a Hawkeye Guard."

"Then your child must work hard. I heard that the monthly salary of the Hawkeye Guard is 120 silver coins, and as long as he serves for 5 years, he will be allocated a house!"

Enjoying the admiring eyes of the crowd, the male Hawkeye Guard, that is, Eric's son Thor Dyson, straightened his chest even more.

It feels so good to be the center of attention!

Especially when others praise him, not the identity of "Eric's son".

Of course, whenever this happens, he will deliberately not think about the fact that he was able to become an Eagle Eye Guard because of Eric's relationship.

In fact, the main purpose of Raven setting up the Eagle Eye Guard is to maintain public order in various places and deal with some small and medium-sized disputes.

After all, in this era, the lord also has to serve as a judge. Many trivial matters - the east family lost a duck, the west family lost pickles - have to be handled by him personally, which really makes him overwhelmed.

Of course, this does not prevent the people below from being proud of being an Eagle Eye Guard.

You know, not everyone can be an Eagle Eye Guard. There are only 10 places in each of the three places, Eagle Town, Flash Gold Town, and Snow Maple Town, and the station has to be rotated every six months.

Relatively speaking, the fewer the places, the greater the power.

Each Eagle Eye Guard can command 20 followers, and they have replaced the original duties of the sheriff, can use force to prevent crime, and have the right to arrest any suspicious person first and then question him.

An 18-year-old sheriff is a face to be told!

Thinking of this, Thor's eyes drifted to another Hawkeye guard, that is his partner Julia.

And at this moment, many people, like him, set their eyes on this Hawkeye guard.

Her outfit is no different from Thor's, half of her face is covered by sunglasses. Although you can see that she is pretty, it can't attract more attention.

What really attracts people's attention is the considerable figure under her breastplate.

For the sake of protection, the half-breastplate is originally a convex hemispherical arc design, and Julia's figure is relatively petite.

But even so, the surging waves still squeezed out of the breastplate, supporting a full and upright arc on the blue shirt inside.

People can't help but want to open the shell and play with it in their hands.

"What are you looking at?" Julia took off her sunglasses, revealing a young and immature face.

Her eyes are big, her nose is delicate, and she is not fierce when she stares, but rather cute.

After all, she is only 15 years old.

The sound was like a yellow oriole out of the valley, but the action was chic and straightforward. Seeing that no one was afraid of him, he pulled out the black whip from his waist and shook it, and whipped it towards the man closest to him.

The whip stopped not far from the tip of the man's nose, and then the whip rolled and exploded with a bang.

Snap! ! !

"Ouch, my face!!" The man covered his nose and stepped back a few steps, pointing at Julia: "You, you-"

"What do you mean by me? Do you think you can look at the Hawkeye Guard casually?" Julia straightened the whip: "This is just a warning to you. If you dare to look at it again, I will blind your eyes and throw you into jail!"

The man loosened his palm and touched his nose. It didn't hurt, but the fear on his face became heavier.

He just felt a burning pain, but he was not actually injured. This shows that Julia's martial arts are extremely advanced, otherwise it would be impossible to control the degree so well, using only wind pressure without actually hurting him!

After taking another look at the whip in Julia's hand, he swallowed his saliva, turned his head in dismay, and said nothing more.

After this, others dared not to watch anymore and began to line up obediently.

"I say, you did a good job!" Thor rode his horse to Julia and said flatteringly: "You use this whip so well, can you teach me when you are free?"

"During the duty, talk less." Julia put on sunglasses: "You are older than me, so you should be more stable."

Thor was not angry after hitting a soft nail. He smiled and rode his horse to continue to maintain order.

Until the sun set and the church bells rang four times, the registration for today's event ended, and Thor and Julia's duty came to an end.

After dismissing his followers, Thor walked beside Julia and returned to the camp, his eyes kept falling on her chest. He wanted to say something several times, but was forced back by Julia's cold expression.

As he walked, he saw a vendor on the roadside. Thor's eyes lit up, and he rode over and bought a candied haws and returned to Julia.

This kind of food was invented by Baron Raven and quickly became popular in the territory. Its sour and sweet taste has always been the favorite of many children.

And Julia's favorite food is this.

"Come, please eat it!" Thor handed the candied haws to Julia. Julia hesitated for a moment, but still couldn't resist the temptation and reached out to take it.

The red hawthorn was washed clean and covered with a light yellow sugar coating. The sugar shell broke crisply when bitten. It was sweet at first, then sour, and the sour and sweet mixed together made Julia smile happily.

Watching the pink tongue licking the sugar residue from the lips, Thor's heart beat violently, and he swallowed his saliva and said, "I said, Friday night is my birthday. I booked a table at the Wallace Hotel. I wonder if you have time to come and play with me for a while?"

Julia stopped moving, frowned, and hesitated: "...If I don't go, can I continue to eat?"

"This..." Thor didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and sighed helplessly: "Eat."

Julia then ate happily.

Back at the Hawkeye Watch Station, Thor said goodbye to Julia and returned to his room.

As the minions of the Baron, the Hawkeye Guards are treated really well. Not only do they have their own private kitchens and exclusive maids, but there is even a small Angel's Glory fixed on the wall in the room.

Don't underestimate it, but if this thing is sold, it is worth 100 gold coins!

"I don't know when I can catch Julia." Thor took off his armor and hat, and approached Angel of Glory with a wink.

"I say, I'm not bad looking. My father, with his uneven eyes, was able to marry my mother."

"Maybe she's too sensitive and inferior. Well, I must infect her with my fiery passion!"

Julia was born in an orphanage. She is the only woman in this group of orphans who has participated in military training and has achieved remarkable results.

It is said that her talent in martial arts has been praised by all the instructors. During the confrontation training, if she did not use fighting spirit, even Simon could only tie with her.

Otherwise, she would not have been appointed as the Hawkeye Guard at the age of 15.

"If I could marry her, the child born would definitely be a good-looking genius!"

After dinner, Thor lay on the bed and began his fantasy.

"I say, what should we name our child in the future? For a boy..."

Mumbling, Thor gradually fell asleep,

until a fierce dog barking sounded.

Tor sat up and said, "Whose dog is this? Can't we sleep!!!"

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