In the Dragon-Warmed World, knights fought for their habitats. Naturally, officials were needed to govern the territories, and scholars were needed to fathom their mysteries.
The Shadowflame Grand Duke Palace, also known as the Red Keep.
It granted the status of scholar to those who made major discoveries in Battle Aura cultivation, significant innovations in magical creations, great contributions to the inheritance of knowledge, or important inventions in daily life, thereby displaying their honor.
In terms of status, scholars were roughly equivalent to lords in the noble hierarchy.
They simply had no fiefs.
However, the Red Keep provided them with an annual stipend, while major lords competed to hire scholars as officials in their own territories.
It could be said that becoming a scholar was a pass into high society.
However.
Was a pair of reading glasses enough to earn him the status of scholar?
Russell did not care much about that. First, he did not need the status of scholar to enter high society; he was already part of it. Second, the evaluation of scholars was merely a matter of a casual word from the Shadowflame Family living in the Red Keep.
Even if he had not invented reading glasses, if Old Madam Ingrid sent a letter, Princess Anxia might still grant Russell the status of scholar.
There was no other reason—it could be seen as a way of winning over Baron Roman.
Of course, Russell had a third reason for not caring.
If he could invent reading glasses, he could naturally invent nearsighted glasses, telescopes, microscopes, and more. If all those inventions together still could not earn him the status of scholar, then the people at the Red Keep had something wrong with their brains.
"It's only an imperfect pair of single-vision reading glasses, Grandmother. I have better