"Who is the headmaster of the Moon-Slayers' school?" After Hippolyta was sent away, Liszt asked.
"Baron Rick Footprint."
"Rick..." Liszt recalled that he had once been a classmate at the Knight Academy. He had followed him since the days of Flower Town, had been badly wounded and nearly died in his first battle, and was left with lingering health problems afterward. He had then begun taking the administrative route. "Tell Rick to educate Hippolyta well. She is someone I am closely watching."
"Understood, Your Highness!"
As the Moon-Slayers were continuously absorbed, the number of Moon-Slayer serfs in the territory had already exceeded two hundred thousand. Among them, ancient magicians alone numbered four thousand. Meanwhile, the knights, magicians, and commoners who had migrated from Flame Territory—the "Flame people"—totaled less than twenty thousand.
Such a vast disparity made the Flame people's rule very precarious.
Although he and A Ke alone were enough to suppress any unrest in terms of top-tier combat power, they could not be everywhere at once. Stability still had to rely on the Flame people. Yet as the Moon-Slayers continued to multiply, the Flame people's control over them was bound to weaken.
There were certainly several million Moon-Slayers scattered across Flame Island, perhaps even tens of millions, since they stretched through most corners of the forests on Flame Island.
As for the Flame people, even with magic portals opened and immigration pushed to the limit, it would be difficult for their numbers to reach several hundred thousand in a short time.
Many Moon-Slayers, few Flame people—Liszt felt that he had to adopt a more reliable means of controlling Flame Island. His plan was to assimilate the Moon-Slayers, integrate them into the knight system, and turn them into subjects loyal to him. At the same time, he had to divide