Mordor City. Hammerstone Tavern.
As a newly built tavern, the Hammerstone Tavern was not very lively, far less than other high-end taverns in Port Mordor. However, there was also a benefit of the tavern here, that was, there were regular customers from military camps and munitions factories. Especially the gray dwarves of Mordor City, they liked the high-alcohol liquor here very much. Compared with other taverns, the Hammerstone Tavern was cheap. The wine glass was the size of a clay bowl, so most of the guests here were from the middle and lower levels of Mordor City.
Today, there were a lot of guests in the Hammerstone Tavern.
However, unlike the bustle of the past, today's Hammerstone Tavern was full of whispers.
"Have you heard?"
"The higher-ups are going to set up an academy! I heard that there are no requirements for admission! As long as you have a Mordor residence permit, you can enter! "
"And you don't need to pay any tuition."
"I heard that the great Søren is going to let those noble wizards be teachers in person."
Not knowing when it started, Søren in Mordor City was no longer just called Søren sir. More and more people began to use the word great to describe Søren's achievements. Because all these changes were closely related to their lives, the lower-class civilians were actually very easy to be satisfied. They would remember who made their lives better and better.
"I know."
"I just heard about it today."
A bearded man took a sip of wine and said, "The City hall revealed the news early in the morning. But it's not all wizards. The City hall is recruiting other scholars and craftsmen as teachers. "
"It is said that the Mordor Academy specializes in teaching some skills."
"But it's not completely free!"
"The academy has fees, but if your family is in trouble, you don't have to pay first. After graduation, these tuition fees can be slowly paid off through work. "
"As long as you can work in Mordor City, you can pay off the tuition fees in half a year at most."
As a primitive era.
At present, the material plane was still implementing the apprenticeship system, which was similar to ancient China. Even an ordinary craftsman apprentice would need three to five years to complete their apprenticeship, and during this period, they would be free labor. In this era, a good craftsmanship could support a person for a lifetime. The ceremony of apprenticeship was very complicated in all aspects. It was also very common for apprentices to be beaten and scolded. Sometimes, if they met a bad master, it could take them more than ten years to earn a living.
Although Søren did not open a professional college, the current system in Mordor City was already changing the rules of reality.
It could be said that as long as this academy system was established, the simple and primitive apprenticeship system in other places in the material plane would basically disappear from Mordor City, and the cultivation of talents would be more efficient.
"I know."
The other man continued, "My nephew is about the same age. I've always wanted him to be a sailor, but he doesn't like drifting on the sea. "
"I'm going to let him go in and learn something."
"I can also have an official job in Mordor City in the future! It's good that he can learn some useful skills at his age. "
Not everyone was qualified to be a professional.
And being a professional was not as good as ordinary people thought, because professionals had to face more dangers. Many parents still wanted their children to live an ordinary life, not to join the army or drift on the sea. Mordor City now provided a lot of job opportunities, but there were very few capable people. Most of them were low-end coolies who sold labor. They used to be useful, but now there were more and more golems in Mordor City. These simple labor could be replaced by golems. At present, Mordor City needed more skilled talents.
"Yeah."
"I think so too. I'm going to send my son to learn how to build a ship. "
"Mordor City is overseas. If you know how to build a ship, you don't have to worry about not having enough food to eat! I just don't know what Mordor City is going to teach at present. "
This time it was a tall and thin man who answered.
But a man who looked like a patrol sergeant sitting behind them said in a low voice, "Not only that! I heard that Mordor City is going to select talents from the whole city who have the qualifications to become wizards and other professions this time. "
"If your nephew can pass the test."
"Tsk tsk."
"That's great! They will definitely be the new rich of Mordor City in the future! "
Hearing this person's words, several other people could not help but be startled, then they said in surprise, "Really?!"
Although the magic network had collapsed.
But for ordinary people, wizards were still a high existence. Just look at the wizard Søren first faced in Amber City. In the eyes of ordinary people, wizards were almost the same as nobles. If someone in the nephew's generation could really become a wizard, then the status of the whole family could be improved in a straight line, and the future would definitely be much brighter.
"I still have a few nephews in Shipwreck Bay. Do you want to bring them here?"
"It doesn't matter if they have talent or not."
"It won't take much time to go back and forth anyway."
It was not a trivial matter to have a wizard in a family. In the past, most of the wizards were passed down internally. Very few people would spend a lot of effort to choose from ordinary people. Because becoming a wizard required knowledge as a foundation. A person who didn't even know how to read, even if they had high intelligence, could not learn spells at all. So in the past, there was no lack of people with wizard talent who were buried. Now that the magic network had collapsed, there was a very clear standard to measure. That was, if the innate intelligence did not reach more than 18 points, they would not be able to brew a trace of mana at all.
In this way, it would be much easier to select the top talents.
There was a lot of discussion in the tavern.
However, the most talked about topic was the recently established Mordor Academy. No matter what it was like inside, Søren's every move had already involved the thoughts of everyone in Mordor City. Everything that Søren had done in the past had already proved himself. The lower class civilians were almost blind to Søren. When they heard that Søren was going to establish the academy, they immediately thought that it was a very promising thing. So now many people in Mordor City were preparing to send their younger generation to the academy.
Even if they did not have a son, they wanted to send the talented and smart people in their relatives.
Invisibly.
The most promising group of newcomers in Mordor City gathered together with Søren's words.
How many talents could be born in the future, how stable the foundation of Mordor City would be!
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(PS: The second update. There is another update today.)
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