The Founding of the Knight Academy (VIII)

Ryan still had something to say.

He absolutely did not have any strange ideas.

He simply, truly, wanted the exchange between the two Knight Academies to be a proper, reasonable, and valuable academic exchange.

This was inspiration he had drawn from the legacies of the Wizard Crows.

Back in Miklagard, Wizards had often exchanged academic experience with one another to increase their strength.

If Ryan wanted Northern Kingdom Knight Academy to swiftly establish its reputation on the foundation of the Imperial Knight Academy, and wanted the knights graduating from it to earn the world's recognition, then naturally it had to produce some results.

An exchange focused on cultivating outstanding knights was merely the quickest way to make everyone remember Northern Kingdom Knight Academy. Once the southern nobles saw it, they would naturally know that Northern Kingdom Knight Academy was an excellent academy as well.

Recognition came from exactly that, didn't it?

Unaware that the Imperial Capital had already become a treacherous place, Ryan was still considering what was happening in the South.

He believed his influence over the South had always been limited.

"The Baron of the Northlands values the emergence of the Imperial First Legion more than anyone else."

For some people, sleep had been elusive lately. A meeting that should have been lively had become secretive, and discussions surrounding nobles and knights had gradually been brought into the open.

"But even now, we do not know what changes the emergence of the Imperial First Legion will bring."

Grand Duke Meyers's residence in the Imperial Capital naturally had a group of followers gathered within it, discussing among themselves how the Empire's rapidly changing circumstances would affect their interests.

"What will it bring? What will it change?"

The aged Grand Duke Meyers, one of the Empire's important rulers, realized