Schiller froze for a moment. He had not expected that to be the reason. Mainly because he really had no concept of magic, he asked, "How much would it cost to build this school?"
"How much would it cost to build the Hogwarts from your dream?"
"Stop, stop, stop. Don't say that name." Schiller furtively glanced around. Do you even have the copyright? Calling it by name like that?
Schiller had genuinely never considered this question. After all, in the magical world of "Harry Potter," magic was almost purely a power of the mind and did not seem to require any price, so building a school should not have cost much.
So he estimated it according to the cost of ordinary humans building such a large castle and arrived at a rather exorbitant figure. It was not that construction materials would be expensive; the key was that land was too costly.
A castle that large, with a lake and woods besides—it would not be easy to buy such a huge plot of land. Schiller did not know much about land prices in Britain, but he knew American land prices very well. Buying a place that large would basically require a billionaire on Stark's level.
"This is a bit troublesome," Schiller said. "It's not like I don't have money, but if you're counting on me alone to invest, then it really will be difficult."
"Of course I wasn't planning to have you invest alone. Plenty of people want to invest, actually. The new school will be a joint-stock venture, and I need our side to hold enough shares."
"I see," Schiller said. He knew it. If Batman was among the people proposing this, then they would definitely suggest a joint-stock system. That way, they could understand how the school operated and