In this way, it took more than a month for Benjamin to completely travel around the two countries and quietly spread the news about the magic school. Eventually, he returned to Carites with the old man in tow.
No... It should be said that this place no longer belongs to Carrites. This land near the intersection of the Three Kingdoms belongs to Benjamin and to all mages in the world who long for knowledge and freedom.
"This is it."
Flying in the air, Benjamin pointed at the building complex in the distance that was already taking shape, and said: "In less than half a month, the college will be completely constructed. More and more mages will come out of this college. "
The old man looked at it from a distance, made an inaudible sound of joy and anger, and said nothing.
After the two flew close, they gradually entered the towns surrounding the magic academy. The small town built around the college was completed a few months ago. Housing, shops, transportation... Although it is a newly built town, all kinds of facilities are available. Most of the people living here currently are mages and construction workers, but some civilians are gradually starting to move in.
The town was built around the academy, separated only by a circle of walls and trees, in preparation for the future operation of the magic academy. Naturally, there will be daily living facilities inside the college, but in the future, whether you are going out or new people come in, it is still necessary to have a town nearby.
At a meeting, Benjamin named the town "Akkademi".
For a new town, this name does seem a bit heavy. However, he believes that with the development of the college and the gathering of people, the town will become bigger and bigger, and may even become an internationally renowned big city.
Of course, these are all things for later. The town has been built a long time ago, and Benjamin took the old man into it.
"Hello, Teacher Benjamin."
"You're back? We all thought you would have to spend a few more days..."
His mages currently live in the town. It happened to be morning, and they came and went, meeting many people along the way, and Benjamin greeted them one after another.
"Are Andy and the others here? Inform the potion mages to gather in the conference room. There is something important to announce." Benjamin said to the mages who came to greet him.
The mage nodded, turned around and went to inform Benjamin's dozen potion mages.
"Wait a minute... I just came here to study potions, and I didn't say I would help you teach a bunch of students." The old man suddenly noticed something was wrong, stopped and said with a frown.
"No, no, no, your Excellency has misunderstood." Benjamin said with a smile, "I am afraid that you will work hard, so I will give you a few more assistants."
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Looking at the old man's expression, it was obvious that something was wrong, but he couldn't say anything, so he had no choice but to continue walking forward with Benjamin.
And Benjamin could only hide his sly smile in his heart.
After finally recruiting a powerful potion mage, how could he not take the opportunity to train the people on his side? The old man would definitely not help them with lessons, but with the title of assistant, his mages could learn a lot.
He helped the old man find a place to live and settle down. The mage captives were locked in a secret basement in the town, and Benjamin also gave the old man permission to take blood for research at any time.
In short, the residence was in place, the materials were in place, and the assistants were in place... He spent more than an hour setting up the old man's research environment, then put the matter aside and waited for the group of people to slowly study the results for him. .
As for himself, he once again devoted himself to the construction of the college.
"This is the student dormitory, and there is the staff dormitory. The daily magic practice ground has been completed, the potions laboratory is still a little bit incomplete, and the auditorium has just been built and not yet decorated..."
Listening to Wallis' report to him, Benjamin nodded while controlling magic to paint the wall.
This progress is already considered very fast. But the expenses these days still stun him. Building materials, manpower, food... Although they have received funding from many wealthy businessmen, they still owe a large debt.
The six-digit gold coins can only be paid back slowly through the future operations of the college.
Therefore, how to make the Magic Academy famous and recruit many students has become the most important thing at the moment.
"It should be completed in half a month. The opening ceremony will be scheduled in two months." Benjamin turned his head and asked Wallis, "The enrollment points in Carites and Freden have been set up. Ok?"
Wallis nodded: "There are a total of twenty enrollment points, which have been completed a long time ago. In fact, hundreds of people have signed up, but the screening mechanism has not yet been discussed, so we cannot give them a clear answer."
Benjamin nodded thoughtfully when he heard this.
They really should discuss how to screen students.
What kind of students are you recruiting? Are those with no magic foundation at all, or are mages with a certain level of strength also welcome? How high should the threshold for magic talent be set? And...how is magic talent measured
Thinking of this, Benjamin couldn't help but have a headache.
According to the current scale of the college, it can accommodate up to about 5,000 students. In his plan, the first wave of enrollment would only be capped at 1,000 people, but with the people from these three countries, it would be easy to exceed 1,000.
There must be screening criteria.
However, the most troublesome thing is that there is no clear numerical system for magic talents. Everything depends on feeling. If they want to conduct fair screening, they must establish a mature system.
Well, there are really a lot of things to be busy with...
Benjamin shook his head helplessly.
At the end of the day's construction, he took the mage back to the town. Without even an hour's rest, he discussed these details with several managers in the conference room.
"We definitely can't recruit everyone. How about... we conduct a test and set some levels. Only those who pass these levels can become official students."
"How can this work? Strong mages can pass the test casually, but when they enter the academy, can we teach them? And what about those who are very talented but have no foundation? They are the ones worthy of training. Bar?"
"Yes! Talent screening, this is the key point! I think we can set two indicators, mental power and elemental affinity, and the sum of them reaches a certain indicator before admission."
"Psychic power and elemental affinity? But how to determine this indicator? You have to have a number..."
These questions will definitely not be answered overnight. Fortunately, the construction was almost completed, so Benjamin and the others were able to spend more time discussing these.
Finally, they arrived at such a standard.
-Above twelve years old, but under twenty years old, with mental strength reaching level C, total elemental affinity reaching level C, or single element affinity reaching level B.
Of course, the purpose of age is to recruit students with little foundation as much as possible. As for the evaluation level of mental strength and affinity, they have studied it for a long time, combined various books and materials, and finally used letters to calibrate a person's magical talent level.
"Everyone, this is an unprecedented feat." When he had just calibrated these things, Benjamin looked at the several mages slumped in the pile of books and encouraged, "The magic in the future will probably be different because of us today. The summed up things become completely different.”