The first layer of the street at the entrance of Fog City was only more than two hundred meters long, and Donner and his party came to the end of the street, and after taking a look at the almost bottomless tunnel that connected the lower city, they returned to Misty Town along the same road. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Over the next few days, Donner asked Grandet to find a few locals for him, and then sent everyone else, except for Moen, who had trouble staying in town, to investigate the surrounding population.

He himself was not idle, he went out early and returned late every day, but no one knew what he was going to do.

Three days later, when Donner returned to Misty Town, he met with the two directors of the Santan School of Magic and the Knight Academy.

Although he couldn't name the two of them, they looked familiar, and if nothing else, he should have seen them in the Great Patriotic War a few years ago.

The two deans were enthusiastic when they saw Donner, and there seemed to be a hint of nervousness on the faces of the deans of Santan Magic Academy.

This is obviously not because of Donner's current status - the magician has a very light view of nobility - but because of the momentum that Donner now exudes.

Donner invited the two directors to his makeshift office in the small inn, and now the entire inn was only Donner and his party, and the others were "invited" by Grandet.

"Lord Duke...... Did you come to us for something?" Nelson, the dean of the Santan Knight Academy, is a second-class knight.

"How many students are there in the academy now?" asked Donner.

Nelson looked at Laurent, the dean of the School of Magic (a first-class magician), and both of them looked a little embarrassed.

"I'll tell you the truth," Laurent replied with a frown, "It's hard to say right now, but from next year, I'm afraid the two colleges won't be able to sustain themselves......"

"Why is that?" said Donner, puzzled.

"My lord," said Dean Laurent, who looked very old with white hair and white beard, but it was natural to address Donner as an adult, "Now that the entire province has become your fiefdom alone, most of the nobles have already begun to move to the south. ”

It dawned on Donner that the entire three provinces had now become his land, and of course the other small and medium-sized nobles would not stay.

In fact, it was very irrational for His Majesty the Emperor to give the entire province of Tris to Donner in excitement after the great victory in the Great Patriotic War, even Roger's father, the Duke of Celts, who had defected in the Great Patriotic War, once owned a fief that spanned two provinces, but only a small half of each province.

However, Donner disappeared shortly after the end of the war, and although Emperor Auston did not retract the order to confer the title, the pattern of the province of Tris remained largely unchanged because Donner did not have any family members left in the Femon Empire.

But now it's different, as a duke, he personally came to take over the entire three provinces, and the other nobles were worried that the Silver Finchflower Federation would attack on a large scale, and now they don't even have a fief, so what are they doing here?

Most of them would go to Coennas and get some compensation from His Majesty the Emperor through various personal connections - in the great war six years ago, the Empire had lost many nobles, but it had gained six provinces of the Thorn Empire, and the Auston Emperor had no shortage of land.

Thinking of this, Donner suddenly felt that this was not a good thing—since the students were all gone, he would take over the instructors of those academies.

Of course, he couldn't just say it, and he wasn't sure what those people were thinking.

He frowned slightly, as if he had some empathy, and said, "What about those faculty members of the academy?"

"After the students are all gone, Your Majesty should stop the Academy's magic crystal quota as well...... There is no need for the Santan Academy of Magic to continue. Dean Laurent sighed, although he did not directly answer Donner's question, but the implication was already clear: most of the faculty members would go to other colleges to find jobs, and as for his dean's position, of course, it was impossible to keep it.

Donner was relieved, and after a few more small talks, he sent off the dean of the Knight Academy, leaving Laurent alone. Although the two deans couldn't figure out what he was going to do, considering that the Duke himself was a magician, it didn't seem particularly strange to leave the dean of the magic academy.

"Since the academy can't be maintained, I don't know what Dean Laurent's plans are?

"I'm afraid that's all it can be......" Laurent didn't seem to be in a good mood.

Donner smiled and said bluntly, "If I can provide the academy's annual quota of magic crystals, will the dean be confident that he will maintain the academy?"

"You're here to provide?" Laurent couldn't believe it, the Santan Academy of Magic could get a quota of nearly 10,000 magic crystals from the empire a year, which was not something that a duke could provide.

"That's right, as a magician, I'd be happy to keep the Academy of Magic within my fiefdom. Downer replied.

Laurent quickly figured out why Duke Vane could say such a thing, as early as after the end of the Great Patriotic War, there were rumors that he had a good relationship with the dwarves, in this case, maybe he could bypass the royal family and trade directly with the dwarves with gold - it was a felony to trade grain directly with the dwarves for magic crystals, and Laurent didn't think about it at all.

"But," he said, "even if there is a quota of magic crystals, there are no students......"

"If we can't recruit nobles, we can recruit civilians. Donner finally said what he was going to do.

However, such words are even more unbelievable to Laurent.

"How can civilians afford to pay for tuition?" he replied without thinking.

"Maybe I didn't make it clear, the support I gave to the academy wasn't the Magic Shard quota, but the Magic Crystal, which didn't need to be exchanged for gold. Donner said.

"Oh...... Your Excellency," Laurent suddenly became nervous, "I must remind you that the Empire does not allow any nobleman to trade grain with dwarves in private. ”

Donald smiled, Laurent clearly misunderstood what he meant.

"Dean Laurent, do you know Orange Crystal?" Donner asked, reaching into his arms.

The dean of an academy of magic, even if he hadn't seen Orange Crystal, should have heard of it, Donner thought.

Sure enough, Lauren nodded: "I heard that one orange crystal can be exchanged for almost 10,000 blue crystals, hmm...... The annual quota of magic crystals of the Santan School of Magic and Magic is less than 10,000 magic crystals. ”

By this time, Donner's hand had been withdrawn from his bosom, and he placed a heavy cloth bag on the low table in front of Dean Laurent.

Laurent looked at Donner suspiciously, reached out and opened the small cloth bag, and after only one glance into the cloth bag, he almost fainted.

That's a whole few hundred orange crystals!

(Ask for a monthly pass!Ask for a recommended ticket!) (To be continued.) )