In other words, simply being an ordinary professor at Saint Marian Academy guaranteed a stable annual income of two million holy coins.
Even by professors' standards, this salary was extremely high—but this was only the base annual salary.
The professors also received holiday allowances during every festival and year-end bonuses at the end of each year.
An ordinary professor's year-end bonus... was one hundred thousand holy coins!
That directly raised the annual income to 3.52 million holy coins!
And aside from their salary, professors received their own faculty dormitories, offices, and laboratories. Every month, they could collect a fixed batch of experimental materials from the academy, with some freedom to choose which materials they received.
If professors had any pioneering ideas or research projects, they could also apply to the academy for funding.
Once an application was approved, the academy would allocate project funds based on its assessment and fully assist in completing the research.
Naturally, the result was that the project's achievements would be shared with the academy.
In short, professors who could secure project funding never had to worry about lacking money. Even if they had special resource requirements, they could obtain them through the academy's quest system.
Many of the quests students accepted in the Quest Hall were posted by professors.
Thus, while Saint Marian Academy was an educational institution, it was also an enormous research institution.
A great many capable professors were drawn in by these benefits, continuously innovating and inventing, pushing the development of Magic Guidance technology at a pace far beyond that of society as a whole.
Compared to such near-unconditional support, a minor perk like being able to use the Holy Grail once a year was hardly worth mentioning to outsiders.
Dark stared at the paper in his hand for a long