Territory Briefing

In the castle at Iowa Pass on July 15, Landen learned in the communications room that the newly established Gallop Academy had already split into two little cliques. One was made up of commoner children led by Dandelion, while the other was a group of noble offspring led by Britt Lanyuan and Yilenda Bristle-Wolf. They had not even been in the territory for half a month, and they were already finding one another an eyesore.

"Are these two groups made up only of children from the Royal Capital?" Landen thought for a moment, then asked, "There aren't any noble children from the original Iron Mine, Salt Mine, or the Northwest Count's territory?"

"No. I asked Gleia this morning, and she said it was only the children from the Royal Capital who couldn't stand one another. She also said this situation had existed back at Blue Dragon School," Redbird said.

"Looks like I was right not to spend another year studying at Blue Dragon School." Landen felt somewhat relieved. "Neil did the right thing. The academy gives the children resources because we want to cultivate them now, so they can serve the territory in the future and grow together with it. The Iron Mine, the Salt Mine, and the Barbarian tribes still identify very strongly with our territory. But this batch of children from the Royal Capital plans to become Mages or knights here, then return to their own families and live as masters."

"My Lord, Neil said someone was stirring things up inside," Redbird reminded him. After all her analysis, she was inclined to think the same, but she only had Yuling and a few others as assistants, so she did not have much persuasive force when it came to managing subordinates.

"Of course someone is stirring things up. If