It was selfish to persuade Eleanor to bring her family in.

Colin actually doesn't have a very clear plan for Xia Ya's future, whether to take a small and refined route in a corner of peace, or to become bigger and stronger, and annex several small countries around it.

and even went all the way to the Western Continent, smashing the Blue Alliance, hardening the Oshik Empire, and by the way, taking advantage of the civil strife in Tulum, he supported Veronica to ascend to the throne, and he was behind the scenes, and finally unified the continent - anyway, other traversers should have done so.

This sounds crazy, but Colin doesn't think it's so unimaginable, as long as you follow the steps and make progress slowly, the probability of success is not small.

However, relatively speaking, Colin is still more interested in his own improvement, both in terms of strength and academics.

Space magic came first, of course, and all his plans so far revolved around this - it should be more interesting to be a strong person like a teacher who can intimidate the whole world than to be an emperor.

Therefore, even after coming to Xiaya, most of Colin's energy was still spent on his own research, and almost all of the development of the territory was handed over to his subordinates, but fortunately, he had a group of very good subordinates.

Now, however, his mind has changed slightly.

The situation on the continent may not be able to wait until it grows up slowly, Brighton breaks away from the alliance, the second prince colludes with the necromancer, and the Duke of Varrant is becoming more and more undisguised ambitions, and there may be drastic changes in the Western Continent and Tulum, and the turmoil caused by the time may not even be able to resist the teacher.

Therefore, Summera must speed up her development.

And the biggest factor limiting its development at the moment is population.

This is a problem that cannot be completely solved by technology.

The population of Xiaya's native area has been roughly counted.

After recovering all the territories, the population of Twilight had risen to 100,000, and the newly built Akibara Castle had gathered about 200,000. According to Jennifer's previous information and investigations, there are still about 100,000 people in the scattered villages and tribes, and these people cannot gather in the two cities in a short time.

In other words, as a principality, Xiaya's original population was only a pitiful 400,000, and only 300,000 can be mobilized at present.

With such a scale, even if it is placed among the 112 countries in the Western Continent, it is a small country.

Therefore, Colin will not let go of any opportunity to pull people.

"Did the whole family move here with Charya?"

Eleanor was obviously a little surprised by the proposal.

"It's just an offer, you can stay here for a while and then make a decision."

Eleanor's team originally had 9 people, 3 of whom were beginner magicians, and among the people who came this time, there were Eleanor and Angelo, and another named Sam, who chose to stay in Thunder City because of his family.

Colin didn't know about their arrival in advance, and it was clear that this was a decision made by Phinea when she was adjusting the focus of the Golden Chamber of Commerce.

"We'll think about it seriously."

Eleanor responded, and then added, "By the way, my lord, I wonder what you are going to arrange for us to do?" ”

Colin thought about it.

5 full-fledged mages, which is a lot of money for Winterfell.

At the school, according to Anne's report, a total of 9 people have awakened so far.

Of the 8,000-student school, only 9 people have awakened.

This ratio is about the same as that of the academy in Thunder City.

Awakening is completely random, regardless of origin, talent, or hard work.

Therefore, among the 100,000 people in Winterfell, there must be people who have awakened, but don't even know about themselves.

It's just that such a person, even if he spends his effort to find out, it doesn't make much sense, after a certain age, and he has not gone through a good study of the basic theory of magic, even if he embarks on the path of a magician, his achievements are very limited.

There are generally two ways to test whether a person has awakened mental power.

One is to use the magic crystal for external testing, but doing so will consume a valuable magic crystal, which is too expensive to be used universally. It is said that so far, only the wealthy Oshik Empire has used this method to screen the whole people, so the number of magicians in Oshik has always been the highest in the continent.

The other, which is currently the most common practice on the mainland, is to take the initiative to learn the theory of magic, learn the operation of spiritual power, and once awakened, of course, you will be the first to know.

The reason why the proportion of magicians in the Western Continent is also very high, on the one hand, is because of the prosperity of academics and the large number of magic apprentices, on the other hand, the economy is relatively developed, there are many nobles, and there are many people who have the capital to use magic crystals.

Tulum is relatively the worst, there is no such academic atmosphere, and the financial resources are not enough to support the national screening, and the number of awakened people is naturally the smallest.

Xiaya is currently enforcing the popularization of magic foundation among the appropriate age group, which happens to solve this problem at the same time.

Although in Colin's opinion, Shaya's future mainly depends on a large number of magic apprentices, it is of course a good thing to be able to have more full-fledged magicians.

It's just that in this regard, Xiaya's teachers are really pitiful.

To put it bluntly, in the entire school, even the headmaster Anne is only an apprentice in magic, and there is no one to teach the 9 magicians who have just awakened to use spells.

In the fortress, in addition to Colin himself, only Tessa, Sophia, and Wald are magicians, but it is clear that these people do not have time to go to school to teach.

"Charya needs people in every way, you can choose for yourself, Wald's magic laboratory, Sophia's plantation, Annie's academy, Matthew's construction team, and even join the fortress guards to fight the orcs......"

Colin introduced them one by one, and finally smiled: "But you don't have to choose in such a hurry, everything can wait until after the wedding." ”

……

Early in the morning, Colin made his way to Veronica's room again through the teleportation array.

Unlike Osteria, Winterfell is his domain after all, and he doesn't have to come late at night for a sneaky tryst.

After dressing up his fiancée, he sneaked out the back door with her.

"Is it really okay to go out like this? If you are found by the ceremonial officer......"

Veronica glanced at the villa behind her with some concern. She was wrapped in only a pair of eyes.

"Don't worry." Colin laughed, "Even if they are discovered, they will definitely treat it as if they didn't see it." ”

Outside Veronica's villa, there are three groups of men guarding it.

The first was the escort regiment led by Madame Moyle, the second was the dozens of fortress guards sent by Roderick, and the third was the honor guard sent by the royal capital ceremonial officer.

The latter was to keep an eye on Her Royal Highness and prevent her from meeting Colin in advance - although it didn't work, it also caused a lot of trouble for the two.

(End of chapter)