The Strongest Knight

The mages settled in Grey Castle.

Gray converted a secondary castle behind the Gray Knight Castle into a magic energy research institute.

In order to establish a research institute, some magical machinery is essential.

From the list drawn up by a group of magicians, Gray excluded some meaningless magical machinery and spent nearly three hundred gold coins to purchase them.

The purchase of magic energy machinery was handed over to a chamber of commerce under Holm, who would transport the desired materials directly from the Southern Region to the Central Region through a large Central Region force that had built a teleportation array.

This saves a lot of time, and the magical equipment can be transported to the Grey Knight Castle in about a week.

Everyone has been busy these days.

Among them, Anna showed a strong interest in magical knowledge. The traditional Central Region magic forces like Candy Canyon did not have specialized magical knowledge to learn.

It was just a holographic communication technology. It was when Holm came to the Central Region from the Southern Region and rescued Candy Canyon in a crisis that he used the holographic communication technology as one of the rewards for the magical knowledge obtained by Candy Canyon.

This is also the only magical product that Candy Canyon possesses.

In the nearly 100 years since the emergence of magical technology in the Southern Territory, several magical products recognized by the public have appeared almost every year, and there are even more half-baked ones that are not recognized.

Therefore, Anna, who was training as a mage in Candy Canyon, had almost no knowledge of magical power.

She diligently sought advice from the old magicians who were free these days. Except for the time she spent alone with Gray at night, she spent almost all her daytime in the Magic Research Institute, and she never got tired of it.

Gray took a quick look and saw that it was mostly just lines of magical routes, magical material combinations, magical mechanical structures, and other messy things. He felt overwhelmed after just one look and lost interest.

Anyway, he has no magical powers, so it’s useless to learn these things.

Besides, didn’t Anna learn the same thing as he did?

The old magicians, like Gray, exaggerated that Anna had a high level of comprehension and that eighteen was the perfect age to start studying magic, not too late.

Gray Magic Research Institute still needs to recruit thirty magician apprentices.

As soon as Gray released the news, the wandering mages in the Red River Valley Mage District were in an uproar.

It's not easy for a wizard apprentice or trainee wizard to have no power to rely on these days. It's hard to make money but easy to spend money.

Especially for mage apprentices, if they have no money and cannot afford spell scrolls, then they are no different from ordinary people except for their keener perception.

Even if you are lucky enough to break through ten points of mental power and become an apprentice wizard, and be able to carve spell templates, no one will give the spell templates to you for free, you still have to spend money to buy them.

An apprentice wizard who can cast level 0 spells independently can become the main force in some mercenary groups and earn a lot of money.

But there are also many bandits in the Central Region, and being a mercenary means that one's life is in danger at any time.

If you encounter a bandit group like the Corpse Bandits, which is on the bandit group list published by the Central City, there will be no one to help collect the bodies even if you die.

The treatment Gray offered was as follows: a three-month probation period, and after three months, performance would be judged, and those who could complete the required magical work could be converted to full-time employees.

During the apprenticeship stage, you can only get thirty silver coins a month, but after becoming a regular employee, you can triple that and get one gold coin a month.

But there is a requirement: to become a regular employee, one needs to sign a five-year employment contract and must not leave Grey Castle without reason within five years.

Apprentice mages can use magic stones for luxurious training, or they can use some relatively cheaper and more cost-effective auxiliary medicinal materials to help with meditation training. One gold coin is enough to buy a large amount of medicinal materials for training.

What's more, if their magical skills meet the standards, Gray will raise their wages to the normal salary of low-level magicians in the Southern Region - five gold coins.

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Not only can they learn knowledge, but they can also get gold coins, so some young mage apprentices come to save their lives.

Gray communicated with Holm and asked the police station to cooperate in verifying the identities of those who registered one by one.

Excluding some with criminal records and some with suspicious identities, Gray selected some mage apprentices under the age of twenty from the remaining personnel.

Among them, there were only two female trainee mages who were twenty years old, and the remaining eighteen were all young mage apprentices.

What Gray cares least about is the mage's talent and realm. Even if their talent is poor, with Gray's resources, they can still be promoted to apprentice mages.

An apprentice wizard can complete most of the basic work of a mage.

There are only one or two true future high-level magicians, and this candidate is undoubtedly Anna.

The two female apprentice mages are twins, Michelle and Millie, who were directly assigned by Gray to Anna as assistants.

The twins have average talent as mages, but their ability to absorb magical knowledge is no match for Anna. They are at the same level as Gray, and they get a headache when they see magical knowledge.

It can be seen that learning magical knowledge also requires talent...

The vigorous apprentice recruitment work soon passed.

The magic equipment will arrive soon, so Gray first assigned a task to his own Magic Research Institute to practice and improve their cooperation.

That is to turn Grey Knight's Castle into a magic lamp.

Today, Grey Castle, like the rest of the Red River Valley, uses ordinary candlelight.

At night, the light of the candles flickered in the darkness, but it was far less bright than the lights in Gray's previous life.

The magic lamp is similar to the electric light in Gray's previous life.

The magic lamp is one of the magic products, created by the magic master Dalva from the Southern Region.

In a magic light bulb made of glass, the air is sucked out, the space is sealed, and only a small piece of elemental photosensitive stone is left. As long as magic power is input, the magic light bulb will light up for a long time.

Mana can be replaced by the magic power of magic stones, but magic stones are non-renewable resources. Therefore, the mages in the Southern Region invented a magic energy storage device that can store the magic power of the mage and turn it into magic energy substitute.

There are three types of magic energy storage devices: large, medium and small.

If you just want to maintain the power of Grey Castle's magic lamps, a small magic energy storage device will be enough.

The small magic energy storage device can store about 1000 points of magic energy. Once it is used up, it will require ten apprentice mages with a mental strength of points to spend a whole day to recharge it.

Therefore, in order to avoid the situation where the energy is exhausted, the storage device needs to be charged by mages in turn at fixed time periods every day.

Gray Research Institute is working hard to complete the first simple task issued by Gray.

Apart from making a few suggestions at the beginning, Gray left the rest to Anna.

That morning, Gray gently wrapped Anna, who was sleeping on his shoulder, into the bed and looked at the calendar on the wall: "God's Realm, Garcia, has he returned?"