"Viscount Frances, twelve volumes of The Secret of the Dragonkin Maid..."
"Baron Fabritche, eighteen volumes of the Exploring the Dragon's Lair series..."
"Lady Steffen, all three volumes of the Warlock Dynasty story collection..."
In mid-November, in the east courtyard hall of the Governor's Residence.
Roland personally led assistants recruited from the Mage Corps and Lainer World in registering and sorting everyone's donations.
Once news of the encyclopedia project spread, it met with an enthusiastic response throughout Leiner. Nobles and intellectuals from every quarter came forward, each making a tangible contribution.
Several knights arrived a step too late. Finding that the books they intended to donate were nothing rare and had already been donated, they shook their heads in disappointment.
But then they spotted the donation box on the other side.
"The books I brought aren't particularly rare, either. I'll donate money instead-twenty million leir, about a thousand gold coins!"
Only after watching the registrar record his name did the donor break into a genuinely satisfied smile.
"These people really are enthusiastic!"
Grand Mage Pollas and Grand Mage Watson, who had come after hearing the news, could not help remarking on the scene.
To avoid interrupting Roland's work, they merely watched from a distance rather than approaching, but they could not resist discussing it.
"Our predecessors conquered the territory of the Lainer people, and I conquered their bodies, but none of us ever paid attention to their hearts, or to their culture and ideas. Yet Roland managed it as soon as he arrived!
"What do you call this? In Seris, isn't it something like, 'A righteous cause wins many allies; an unrighteous one wins few'?"
"Indeed. A righteous cause wins many allies; an unrighteous one wins few!"
Grand Mage Watson agreed.
"Compiling this encyclopedia has truly rallied the Lainer nobility behind