Chapter Seventy-Three: The Mage's Tower-Orphan
"Alright, that's all for today!"
After a respectful greeting to Kelrith, Quinn quickly stepped back into the group, shouting loudly and slowly leaving the town center square with the rest of the boys and girls.
Although it is left, in fact, the entire team is only two less than at the beginning.
That's right, after more than half an hour of talent testing, the middle-level mage only found two children with professional talents, only two out of seventeen, and the others were mediocre or even unsightly, with a discovery rate of only 11%.
However, this low and dismal discovery rate of mid-level mages has actually been experienced twice, and even the previous two times only found a child with a little warrior talent, which is still the final lowering of the standard by Kyrryth, so that a 16-year-old kid who is about to reach 7 points in physique has become the only one who has passed.
Therefore, being able to discover the seeds of the two mage apprentices today is actually a big harvest, and it also gives the middle-level mages who were originally lacking interest a lot of expectations.
The talent check arranged by Kelreth is in line with the progress of the renovation of Sunset Town, and every time a group of townspeople settle into a new house, the children or orphans of this group of families will be organized by Quinn and taken to the center of the town to be tested for talent.
The reason for this arrangement is also because Oak Town was originally developed as a homeless village, this kind of village is now in the Sunset Forest area, in addition to the spring kite village of Rivendell, there are three, the fourth village that Count Kennery mentioned has been destroyed by a certain wild beast that escaped from the forest a year and a half ago, and the remaining villagers finally converged on the nearest village of Oak Town, and finally led to the original village of the scale finally formed Oak Town.
However, although the scale barely meets the minimum requirements of the town, the management of the town has always been very primitive and backward, and to this day how many people are in the town, how many families, which families have children, and how many children, even the old Louis, the elder of the homeless people, only knows a rough idea, let alone a little paper record, and the fact that this household registration system does not exist at all is also one of the reasons that prompted Kelreis to decide to carry out town renovation.
The middle-level mage also hopes to conduct an all-round accurate census of the entire Sunset Town through the standardized town's residential houses formed by demolition and reconstruction, and only after clearly understanding the true situation of his own people, Kelrith can be regarded as the most important first step in controlling the territory, and can truly rest assured that the collection and training of talents can be carried out.
However, in the past few months, the mid-level mage has secretly begun to collect the actual situation of some of the town's residents, and although it is not accurate, it has a general understanding of the entire population.
On the one hand, there is a big deficit in the ratio of men and women, and the female townspeople are almost less than one-third of the men, although this situation is very normal for the homeless people in the town, after all, the upheaval of the displaced people's life, women are always the easiest to be eliminated which type of people, and even the current woman is still in the town after the establishment of the tossed over, but for long-term development, this almost deformed ratio of men and women itself has a great hidden danger.
On the other hand, the number of minors in the entire town far exceeded Kelrith's estimate, although there is no specific data yet, but according to the observation of the intermediate mage for so many days, the number of minors in the entire Sunset Town should exceed three hundred, and more than half of them are orphans.
For a town with no more than a thousand people, this ratio is already very strange, and for this reason, the middle-level mage has also asked Kunn intentionally or unintentionally, but the other party did not give any specific reason, but according to Kelrith's speculation, this should be the action of old Louis.
This wandering elder, who was a little wise and a little ambitious, took care of the children in the team to a certain extent when he led the wandering group, and then, after the team settled in the Sunset Forest, he even deliberately sheltered some underage homeless people from other villages, but he also knew that even if the children who were too young were accommodated, they could only be a pure burden, so the youngest of the minors in the town was not less than ten years old, and most of them were boys, and they were all semi-laborers who could help adults when they were working。
In the human world of the Eastern Kingdoms, the stage of social development is similar to that of the European Middle Ages in the present world, manpower is still the most primitive and fundamental resource, and the flow of adult strength is generally deliberately limited by the upper management, and these underage orphans are generally regarded as a burden and left to fend for themselves. In the first place, Louis Sr. must have seen this, so he was able to so easily accommodate almost the orphans of the entire settlement around the Sunset Forest.
Of course, these could have been Louis's plans to revitalize Oak Town in the future, but now they have naturally been put into Kelrith's pocket, and even opened up a new way to increase manpower for middle-level mages.
"You two, start learning the lingua franca with George tomorrow! ”
But after thinking about it for a while, when Kyris came back to his senses, he couldn't see the figures of Kune's group anymore, only Kiel behind him, and the two boys who were chosen, standing behind him in a daze.
The plan of the whole new area of the town was designed by Kelreis, the center is the base of his mage tower, and then around the central square, a circle of brand new two-story houses forms a tight innermost circle, only in the southwest direction there is a passage the size of a house, and along the passage to the outside is the construction site of the second circle of new houses that are now in full swing, and a space is separated from the first circle of buildings, and a tight circle is also formed to enclose the first circle of houses.
Starting from this circle, because it was completely done by the townspeople themselves, the construction speed of the whole circle was less than a quarter of the first circle, and it was enough to barely complete one building in one day, which was still the premise that almost all the empty townspeople were helping, and just like that, after a month, the second circle of houses was only two-thirds completed.
And the two children in front of him, the boy should be the child of the new house in the second circle, and for the orphans, Kelreis's arrangement is five to six to form a family unit, and a new house is allocated, until the eighteenth adult, if not married, then three to four adults of the same sex form a family unit and allocate a house, in addition, the principle of one household and one house is theoretically implemented.
Kelly also knew that this rule was relatively crude and simple, and after the town developed, when the population became more and more, there would definitely be moths. But for now, it's a policy that all townsfolk support 100% for, and it's the beginning of Kyrreth really starting to establish his lordship and authority in Sunsettown.
"Little girl, starting today, you will live on the second floor, choose a room by yourself, if there is anything in the original house, you can go and pick it up in a while!"
Turning his head to look at Lilia, who was still looking down and pinching the corners of her clothes, Kyrreth gave a few words, leaving Kiel alone to walk towards the "Mage Tower".
"If you have anything to take, I'll take you there, it's more troublesome to close the door and open it again!"
Kiel asked the girl softly, and she turned her head to glare at Sam, who had been stunned since he was chosen.
"Stinky boy, hurry home and talk to your parents, if you're late tomorrow, be careful of your ass!"