The Morningstar Award's media buzz had gradually faded, but it still retained considerable warmth in arcane circles, especially among scholars of Runology.
Unlike news, which depended on timeliness, the arcane world often went for long stretches without any major new achievements.
Roland, who was still actively producing work and releasing new material, generated interest all on his own.
He seemed to be proving to everyone in this way that the feast was not over-it had only just begun!
And so, the two lessons Roland had recorded quickly spread.
Inside his residence in the Mage Tower.
With Aier attending him, Roland enjoyed a long bubble bath. When he returned to his bedroom feeling refreshed, he discovered that his courses had already sold more than four hundred copies.
"That doesn't look like much, but it's actually pretty good."
Atrelin's native population had already exceeded a hundred million, but the personnel of its various Mage Towers still numbered only a little over a hundred thousand.
Of those, perhaps just over ten thousand belonged to the Runes School.
For the time being, they were the only people likely to pay attention to and purchase such courses.
More than four hundred out of ten thousand was already a respectable following.
Even more unexpectedly, when Roland woke the next morning and checked, sales had already reached over a thousand copies.
After just one short day of word of mouth, more people had heard about the teaching materials from friends and family and specifically come to subscribe.
To some extent, this reflected the attention Oracle and Seris were receiving both inside and outside the field.
"At my rate of five silver coins per lesson as an intermediate lecturer, a thousand viewers means five hundred gold coins. After deducting the Magic Network Administration Office's and Arcane Committee's shares,