Throne of the North

After walking out of the shop called Winter Forest, Ryan and his companions no longer had the idea of ​​strolling around.

There was no other way. Just a few steps would cost thousands or tens of thousands of gold coins. They really thought that Master Ryan was very rich.

If it weren't for the battles in the North Wind Province, as a northern baron, Ryan's annual output value would not exceed two thousand gold coins.

For a baron like Baron Hatton, the annual net income was only two or three thousand. Now it should be around three or four thousand, but it is still a drop in the bucket for the prices in the imperial capital.

The income of a baron's territory can only be walked around a shop on Palmyra Street.

"With these things, Winter will grow up quickly."

Brock said excitedly. They all knew that Winter was not an ordinary horse.

Thinking of this, Ryan felt better. The money would not be wasted.

However, this also reminded him of one of the purposes of coming to the south this time.

He needed potions and means to cultivate war horses.

He even wanted to win over some magicians to become the exclusive magicians of his frozen land territory.

For a noble territory, there are always only two kinds of the most important extraordinary people.

One is a knight who can have a chance if he endures hardships, and the other is a magician who has no other choice but talent.

Ryan has no shortage of knights at present, but he has no magicians.

Although Luna Mage is a powerful great mage, the other party is now in the form of a golem puppet and cannot complete any magic research and spells.

Potions are delicate work.

"There is only one place in the imperial capital to train war horses and potions, that is, the magic tower belonging to the royal family, but the royal family will never let the potion formula taken by war horses leak out."

"In this case, there is only one place that may have it."

Ryan came to the most watched place in the imperial capital, the magic academy.

Since the struggle between theocracy and royal power, after the church withdrew from the empire, the empire began to introduce other extraordinary people, and magicians are of course the most important. For this reason, the empire built a magic academy in the imperial capital at all costs.

The Knight Academy and the Magic Academy are the result of the Empire's struggle with theocracy. After the Church was driven away, the Empire replaced the Church and began to recruit talents from the civilians for training.

It must be said that the current Emperor of the Empire, Columbus III, was really courageous and far-sighted when he was young. The emergence of the two academies has almost increased the Empire's strength in all aspects by 10%.

As the only empire on the continent, 10% can even be compared to half a kingdom.

The Knight Academy is fine, after all, it requires a lot of resources to accumulate, so most of the knights in it are also descendants of the power class.

But the Magic Academy is different. Magicians are an extraordinary system that relies heavily on talent. As long as there is talent, the Magic Academy will be eager to train them.

No need to pay anything extra.

This is the arrogance of the wizard.

The Empire previously allocated one million gold coins for the annual repair of the North Wind Province. This amount is also the financial support that the Magic Academy can get every year.

How many people and how large is the territory of the North Wind Province? The Magic Academy has only a few thousand people at most.

However, considering that the establishment of the magic academy directly attracted the arrival of several legendary wizards, no one said anything.

Just like Ryan invited Raistlin, a druid who might be comparable to the peak golden knight, and asked for 50,000 gold coins a year. Is this high? It was so high that he could even invite a sanctuary wizard or even a legend to help him do something.

But what Ryan valued was not this, but the influence that Raistlin, a druid, could bring once he was in his territory.

For 50,000 gold coins, it was not just a druid that was traded, but also the followers around the druid, that elite team. Even the appearance of the druid would attract more extraordinary people in this area to enter his frozen land territory. Those extraordinary people might be persuaded by Ryan to be loyal to him because of the existence of the druid.

There is also an extraordinary circle of extraordinary people, just like the shops on the streets of Palmyra. Behind each shop, there are powerful extraordinary people. Do they know each other? Absolutely.

The appearance of a druid is equivalent to opening the conditions for the extraordinary circle.

Of course, magicians can also do it. A thousand golds are worth a horse bone. Ryan came to the south this time, not just to be a small transparent baron.

He has a lot of money in his hands. The wealth brought by the war will be meaningless if it cannot be turned into a powerful force.

The magic academy has arrived.

Looking up, Ryan can see the gray-white building complex at the end of the wide street in front of him, and dozens of tall magic towers in the building complex.

Each of these towers represents the existence of at least a great wizard. Thousands of magicians in the magic academy are surrounded by these magic towers.

They are both students and assistants. Every place where a great wizard is located will naturally gather a large number of magicians.

Not to mention anything else, the power of this magic academy can subvert the entire North Wind Province.

"The empire is so powerful that it is no wonder that it can become a beacon of the southern land."

Ryan came without any preparation, because he had been in the imperial capital and knew what kind of group there was outside the magic academy.

How many people in the entire empire and the imperial capital want to invite magicians from the magic academy? Or want to ask the magicians inside to do something?

However, it is difficult for outsiders to enter the magic academy, so there will inevitably be a group of intermediaries.

Don't underestimate these intermediaries. They are not ordinary people, but children of nobles, or relatives and friends of a magician in the magic academy. Usually, these two identities belong to the same person.

Magicians are also short of money. It can even be said that no one is more short of money than them, so it is not so strange for magicians to take private jobs.

Outsiders may only see the owners of dozens of towers, but Ryan knows very well that whether it is a knight or a magician, there are too many poor and unfulfilled guys.

Because of their lack of talent and resources, they are simply bleak compared to those dazzling people.

Aloof? Magicians are arrogant, but they are never aloof.

Otherwise, when the magic academy was established, three legends came, and there would be nothing to say.

There are thousands of mages in the Magic Academy now. Among them, it would be considered good if one or two of them could become legends by chance?

After a few years or more than ten years, after this batch of mages leave the Magic Academy, how many of the new batch can become legends?

Although there seem to be many powerful extraordinary people in the Imperial Capital, they are almost all old guys.

Most of those legends broke through in the previous God Pan-Plane War.