Among the more than five hundred Formal Magicians at Ash Holy Tower today, aside from the hundred-odd who had been recruited in recent years,
there were also more than seventy Formal Magicians independently cultivated by Ash Holy Tower over the two hundred years since its establishment.
Because these Formal Magicians came from ordinary backgrounds, when signing contracts with Ash Holy Tower, they had to fulfill at least three hundred years of obligations there.
There was no helping it—what one gave was proportional to what one gained.
Ash Holy Tower had spent an enormous amount of resources cultivating these Formal Magicians, so these Formal-Ranked Magicians naturally had to repay Ash Holy Tower's investment.
Moreover, after signing contracts with Ash Holy Tower, these Holy Tower Magicians were not unpaid labor. They also received their own Holy Tower salaries.
Ash Holy Tower's overall benefits were quite good.
This was how a Holy Tower grew bigger and stronger, bit by bit.
These young Magicians cultivated by the Holy Tower Academy often had a stronger sense of belonging toward their Holy Tower.
A large portion of them, even if they later began traveling across the Wizard World, would continue to keep their registered status at Ash Holy Tower.
Perhaps Saine's Holy Tower might even cultivate a Demigod-level Magician in the future.
Saine and Meili's perfectly coordinated exchange had completely shut Chris up.
Just as Saine had guessed, Chris did not possess direct evidence that Saine had smuggled apprentices.
In truth, it would be difficult to convict Saine over something like this.
Some among Ebarute Empire's upper ranks did not want to concern themselves with the matter. With the Twenty-Fifth Wizard Alliance Assembly about to begin and the Civilization War on the verge of erupting, who had the time to care about the whereabouts of a