Chapter 916 Reaching out for money
Where there is good news, there will naturally be bad news.
As soon as they returned to the Dark Fire of the Holy Tower and their buttocks were still hot, the two deans, Thain and Kester, both extended their hands to each other.
"Our Holy Tower's public funds have been spent in the past three years."
"For the long-term operation of the Holy Tower, we need more additions from you, tower owner." Kester took the lead in saying.
Because he is an old man of the Holy Tower, although nominally he and Thain jointly manage the public funds of the Holy Tower of Dark Fire, in fact, the person who is mainly in charge of the money bag is the much older Thain. The old dean.
In recent years, Thane has frequently lured Baos and other magicians from the Ebalut Empire, but in the end he was reimbursed by Kester.
"Is it all used up so soon? I remember that before I left, I left a total of one hundred thousand magic coins." Dark Fire frowned and said with some surprise. .
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Thain and Kester did not explain much, but directly handed over the two crystal balls.
The information recorded in the crystal ball is all the expenses of the Holy Tower in the past three years. The amount of magic coins spent in it is even accurate to single digits.
With their status as Thain and Kester, there was really no need for them to embezzle public funds from the Holy Tower.
The fifth-level magician Dark Fire is not a person who likes to manage the affairs of the Holy Tower, but it does not mean that he does not understand the affairs of the Holy Tower at all.
Who can become a fifth-level magician easily?
How could he be fooled by two third-level magicians?
Then, Dark Fire frowned and carefully reviewed the spending of magic coins in the two crystal balls.
Indeed, as Thain and Kester said, there is not much left in the public fund pool in the Holy Tower.
The original one hundred thousand magic coins were now only worth just over thirty thousand.
At this rate, the Holy Tower of Dark Fire will soon run out of money.
The Holy Tower has no money, but the tower owner has plenty of money.
Just after the war in Gumo's plane ended, all the war profits collected by this fifth-level tower master were converted into magic coins, which amounted to millions at least.
Not to mention, in addition to the Gumo plane, Dark Fire also has several slave planes in his hands, as well as the wealth accumulated in the early years.
In terms of personal wealth, Dark Fire is considered rich among fifth-level magicians.
He's just not popular and doesn't have many friends.
In the crystal ball that Thain and Kester handed over to the tower owner, the two largest expenditures recorded in terms of capital flow are: the apprentice training expenses of the Holy Tower Academy, and the upgrade of the overall environment and equipment of the Holy Tower.
The former was mainly caused by Thain.
Why is it difficult for civilian magic apprentices to become successful? It’s not because of insufficient resources!
Although Thain has brought enough students to the Dark Fire Holy Tower Academy in recent years, the resources provided for the growth and experience of these magic apprentices will not appear out of thin air.
Relying solely on the apprenticeship tasks issued by the Holy Tower Academy is simply not enough to make up for the cost of training them.
In fact, not only in the Holy Tower of Dark Fire, but in the entire wizarding world and in all Holy Tower organizations, "education" is a loss-making business.
Is it possible that a few middle- and low-level apprentices, who carry out the mission of exterminating the monsters or bandits that cause trouble every few months, can make up for the cost of training them by the Holy Tower?
How can it be!
The so-called mandatory periodic apprenticeship tasks are just a way specially created by Holy Tower Academy to train these little guys.
The purpose of the Holy Tower Academy rules in the wizarding world is not to cultivate a group of nerds.
After all, magicians who are truly suitable for war are the young power and fresh blood that wizard civilization needs most.
Education is a public good, otherwise the wizarding civilization would not provide every magician who builds a holy tower with a large amount of loans and various conveniences to help them build a holy tower.
The lowest cost of training an apprentice to be a successful one. After Thain became the dean, he once calculated that it was close to one hundred magic coins!
This is only the minimum cost. The so-called success means that the other party can smoothly advance to the next level.
Of course, advancing to the first level is far from simple, and there is still a huge gap between theory and reality.
At the same time, there are also a large number of magic apprentices who are stagnant in their growth.
Low-level magic apprentices and intermediate magic apprentices are the largest group of magic apprentices in the wizarding world.
But when the two offset each other, Thain discovered that the investment of one side of the Holy Tower in an apprentice was still close to one hundred magic coins!
Apprentices from aristocratic families have an advantage over civilian apprentices in that they can more easily obtain more resources by virtue of their family background.
In this world, there are only a few geniuses who can grow simply by practicing hard.
Resources are what determine the greater ratio.
The more than 2,000 apprentices that Thane brought to the Holy Tower of Dark Fire in the past three years, as well as the thousands of apprentices who will enroll every year in the future, are almost all poor civilians.
So many apprentices need to study in the Holy Tower, but they are not allowed to spend money. Where does the money come from?
Thain could only reach out to the tower master.
As for the other biggest expenditure - the upgrade of the overall environment and equipment of the Holy Tower.
This was also proposed by Thain, but it received the full support of Dean Kester!
In the field of improving the environment of the Holy Tower and upgrading equipment, Dean Kester is more anxious than Thain.
In fact, as early as hundreds of years ago, Kester mentioned the relevant content to the tower owner, Dark Fire, but was directly rejected by the tower owner at that time.
The most fundamental reason why Dark Fire established the Holy Tower was actually for himself.
The cultivation benefits provided by the Holy Tower Suppression Rule Node are what Dark Fire values most.
He is not doing it for charity!
For the Fire of Darkness, it was enough to just build the Holy Tower and bring it enough . He never thought about it. Treat this thing as a career.
This is one of the reasons why Dark Fire was able to ignore the departure of a large number of magicians from the Holy Tower, and promoted Thain to Dean for the first time.
He doesn't pay attention to these at all!
But this time, the Dark Fire was directly taken away by the Wizard Civilization Supervisor in the nearby area. With the entire Holy Tower affairs falling on the shoulders of Thane and Kester.
There is no Dark Fire above. Why don't Thane and Kester just do whatever they want?
Thain actually does not have such a high vision. The reason why he proposed to vigorously improve the environment of the Holy Tower and upgrade all aspects of the Holy Tower's equipment was entirely because of what he saw and heard in the Holy Tower of Origin.
Thain's mentor Lu Lianman is a fourth-level magician who is very willing to spend money on the Holy Tower.
She is the powerful person in the wizarding world who truly regards the Holy Tower as her career.
Thain was influenced by his mentor, so he naturally couldn't stand some of the shortcomings and shortcomings of the Holy Tower of Dark Fire.
After communicating with Kester, another principal, the two had the same idea!
Thain even wanted to follow the example of his mentor Lu Lianman and expand and upgrade the public library of the Holy Tower of Dark Fire.
But this plan has been put on hold for the time being.
Because there is no money.
When he just walked out of the laboratory, Thain was still complaining deep down that the tower master came back at the wrong time.
But at this time, after the construction of the Holy Tower was brought up again, Thain had to lament that the tower owner came back at the right time.
Faced with the hands that Thane and Kester extended to him at the same time, Dark Fire fell into a long silence.
