As it turned out, Xu Yi had guessed correctly.
After spending a day at Baron Rector Magic Academy, Xu Yi not only successfully signed contracts with the thirteen students receiving support from the scholarship fund, making them employees of the Xinfei Merchant Guild, but also had a full twenty-four other graduates express their desire to work for the guild.
Naturally, Xu Yi could not give them an answer on the spot. Instead, he told them to prepare and go to Sankton Manor three days later for recruitment assessments.
In truth, Xu Yi wanted to recruit all twenty graduates into the guild without another word. After all, the Xinfei Merchant Guild still desperately needed large numbers of mages.
Although Baron Rector Magic Academy could not be considered one of the very best magic academies in the Lampari Kingdom, it was far better than Senkohaier Academy, which Xu Yi had previously attended.
Students who graduated from here generally had at least the abilities of a Second-Level Mage, and quite a few had reached the third or even fourth level.
If he recruited these students into the Xinfei Merchant Guild and trained them for a while, the Magic Research Institute would certainly receive a substantial boost in personnel.
Of course, recruiting these students into the Xinfei Merchant Guild was only a beginning.
Given that the guild would need even greater numbers of mages in the future-or, more precisely, magic machinery engineers-Xu Yi gave the matter careful consideration before holding another round of discussions with the management of Baron Rector Magic Academy. In the end, they agreed to establish a separate Magic Machinery Faculty within the academy.
As its name suggested, this faculty would teach subjects related to magic machinery.
To establish this faculty, the Xinfei Merchant Guild would have to provide Baron Rector