Merlin stood in the open space at the back of the mountain, feeling helpless when he saw the students planning to march after work. He now thought that he must have been too good to them and gave them too much rest time, which led them to have nothing to do after eating and then go on a demonstration.
"Boss Merlin!" Several students holding signs that read "Commoners' lives matter too", "Cancel preferential treatment for nobles", and "Unfair, Unfair" hurriedly greeted Merlin when they saw him coming.
It was obvious that Merlin still had a very high status among these students. These people even looked at him with admiration. After all, they had all heard about how Merlin "treated all students equally" in the Monster Mountain Range.
Arthur even told about how Merlin dealt with the believers of the ancient gods and stopped the cult from hunting down students, and even gave all his own credit to Merlin.
If Merlin hadn't been in a coma, the person the students would have elected to lead might not be Yuna but Arthur.
They remembered Merlin's kindness to them. It was real benefit. By giving them simple work, they could earn a lot of gold coins, which greatly improved their lives.
Even the senior students were full of gratitude towards Merlin. After all, unlike other nobles, he did not make them work like slaves for a whole year before being given an internship certificate. Instead, he gave them an internship certificate as long as they started working.
"Are you guys gathered here to continue the march? Who is your organizer?" Merlin asked as he stood beside his classmates.
"Ah? Does this still require an organizer?" one of the students asked in confusion.
"Anyway, the final exams are over and there are not many classes, and the holiday is coming soon. You can get a cup of milk tea by participating in the parade. Although the price of milk tea has dropped significantly now, it tastes better when it's free." A student pointed to the Mixue Time in the open space on the back mountain, and Merlin found that someone was indeed handing out milk tea.
"Yeah, and I've finished my work, so I just followed along because I was bored."
"The whole academy is doing fair sports right now, and it would be a bit out of place if we don't follow."
"Well, actually now we are not so hostile to the preferential treatment given to noble students. After all, they did pay a lot of tuition fees, and we are not unreasonable." A student shrugged.
"Besides, we now spend all our extra time working part-time, so we don't have time to care about those noble classmates. They play their games, and we play ours."
"Yeah, the back hill has become my home. I don't even live in the dormitory anymore. After all, I can earn more on the night shift."
"Boss, actually most of the people who are marching are just people who have nothing better to do. If they have a job that pays well, who would have nothing better to do and march? Isn't it nice to make money? Since I came here to work, my life has been getting better and better. You see, the magic wand in my hand was bought with my own money. I have to thank Boss Merlin for giving us the opportunity to make money." The classmate put down the sign in his hand a little embarrassedly. After a closer look, he found that the thing was actually modified from a magic wand.
Well, it seems that I really have not assigned enough work to them. But there is nothing I can do about it. After all, they have been busy with final exams these days and have not developed their own industry.
Although he had established a systematic industrial park in the back mountains, the scale and number of factories could not satisfy the needs of ordinary students in the entire Arcane Academy.
The Arcane Academy was huge. After all, it was the premier institution of learning in the entire continent. People from the six empires and even the elves came here to study. It included all the talents from the six empires, and the number of students was not just a few thousand or tens of thousands.
According to statistics, the number of students currently enrolled in the Arcane Academy has reached 800,000, and there are more than 200,000 students in Merlin's class. The reason why it gives people the illusion that there are few people is entirely because Merlin is a noble and the circles he comes into contact with are all aristocratic circles, so naturally the number of students seems small.
The number of 800,000 may seem like a lot, but in fact, compared with the population of the six empires, the number of people who can enroll is still pitifully small. The ordinary students who can enroll are those whose families have some savings and whose parents are not ignorant. They know that knowledge is the easiest way to change their destiny.
Merlin couldn't help but smile bitterly as he listened to the students' explanations. He looked at the group of energetic yet somewhat ignorant students in front of him, with a lot of thoughts in his mind.
"You guys, although work is important, you also have to understand that this parade is not just a simple game." Merlin shook his head helplessly, "But since you already know what's going on, I won't say any more. But you still need to think more about what you do in the future."
The students nodded in agreement, their eyes still showing respect for Merlin.
Merlin turned and left, but in his mind he was thinking about how to further expand his industry to provide more job opportunities for these "energetic" students.
He would feel extremely uncomfortable if these students earned less money for him for a day. It seems that his plan for the downtown area must be implemented as soon as possible.
"Merlin, I did it!"
Just as Merlin was thinking about future plans in his room, the door was suddenly pushed open.
Delia ran over with a bottle of potion. She placed the clear potion on the table and said excitedly, "I have successfully developed a potion that can remove the cassava toxin."
Really successful? Merlin looked at Delia in shock. He looked at the transparent potion on the table. With this thing, pearl milk tea no longer had the side effect of diarrhea, and he could also advance his breeding plan.
"How much does it cost to make this thing?" Merlin asked, suppressing his excitement.
"The production cost of a bottle of this potion is about sixty gold coins. After all, some detoxifying potions are used in it. This bottle of potion can be dissolved in water to remove the toxins in tens of thousands of tons of cassava without any problem."
"Great, this is exactly what I want. Delia, you have done a great job. I will give you a generous bonus. What about Stacy? Contact Garant immediately and ask him to build a cassava cleaning plant for me in the back mountain!"
Merlin stood up and threw a bag of gold coins directly from his space ring into Delia's arms. He had quite a few bags of gold coins like this in his space ring, which were specially used to reward "meritorious officials" like Delia.
Merlin plans to contact the elves he has conquered to expand the cassava planting industry.
Delia looked at the heavy bag of gold coins in her arms and a happy smile appeared on her face. It was really great to work for Boss Merlin. The pay was high and she could use potion materials and research as she pleased. Is there any better job in the world than this? She wished she could live at the Potions bench twenty-four hours a day.
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