Chapter 421: Topic Selection and Rule-Making
After the old wizard from the Plutarch Family left, the three First-Ring Wizards in the research group all breathed a sigh of relief.
Locke's hardline attitude was the only shield protecting their research group, which had no faculty member with an advanced academic title.
After Locke's forceful refusal just now, the forty-five Wizard Apprentices they had previously negotiated for probably would not have any wizard mentors daring to come to their door again to evade their agreements, break their contracts, and take their students away.
Wizard Montgomery said, "Lord Locke, regarding the Wizard Apprentices now under our care, we need to provide each First-Class Wizard Apprentice with a monthly living stipend of three hundred Magic Stones, and each Second-Class Wizard Apprentice with a monthly living stipend of fifty Magic Stones."
"In other words, our research group not only has to negotiate with the wizard mentors behind these students at the beginning, but will also have to bear the cost of providing every student with funding each month afterward. That means our research group will have to pay the wizards a total of twenty-one thousand Magic Stones every month."
Locke nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.
Wizard Tacitus spoke up. "It may not necessarily be twenty-one thousand Magic Stones. We also have to consider other issues. If the students fall ill or get injured, and they are responsible for certain critical data work, it would hardly be appropriate to make them take out loans to repay us and let them become Debt Slaves, would it?"
"If we were part of a team with someone holding an advanced academic title, replacing students would be easy. But none of the four of us has the authority to take on students, so students are extremely valuable to us.