"What do you think?" Old Dragon took a sip of tea and asked with a grave expression.
As the city lord, he naturally hoped the greater the authority, the better. The authority to openly control the entry of players' attributes would not only allow the city lord to allocate personnel according to his own judgment, but also strengthen his authority.
Putting aside distant matters and looking at what was close at hand, the Advanced Academy had settled in the city. Every one of its senior instructors was immensely capable, and the knowledge and abilities they occasionally displayed were far beyond those of the instructors at the Training Base. Winning these people over was undoubtedly of enormous importance to the city lord.
The city lords outside were all incredibly envious of Hua Xia City's natural advantage, but only Old Dragon knew that his influence over the academy was actually quite limited.
The academy's location had been approved directly by the higher-ups, and all its facilities and funding were also handled directly by them. None of it passed through his hands. Aside from being located here, he was actually no different from the other city lords. He could not influence the school's operations through his authority and could only win people over through its student intake.
What left him speechless was that, because the academy had settled in Hua Xia City, it already had an obvious advantage in recruiting locally. A simple publicity campaign could attract a large number of students without involving him at all. Other cities were different. Their local city lords could cooperate with instructors who wanted to promote their departments, conducting official publicity campaigns and thereby earning those instructors' goodwill...
This left Old Dragon incredibly conflicted...
On the one hand, he was quite pleased to see that many