Chapter 908: Apprentice Recruitment

In the nearly half a year since returning to the Dark Fire Holy Tower, Sean's main job has been to deal with the contract signing and retention of these resigned magicians.

As the dean, Sean has a clearer understanding of the current situation of the Dark Fire Holy Tower by virtue of his position.

Before the Dark Fire Holy Tower launched a war against the Gumo plane, there were a total of 19,876 registered magicians.

The number of registered magicians approaching 20,000 is not a lot, but it is definitely not a small number.

However, with the end of the Gumo plane war, the number of registered magicians has dropped sharply to 3,207 in the past year.

After all, only a few magicians were lost during the war, and most magicians voluntarily left the Holy Tower after the war.

This is because Sean and Dean Kester did their best to retain a group of magicians who had just been promoted to the first level not long ago. Otherwise, this number would have fallen below 2,000.

It was also this experience that made Sean realize that he could understand the decision made by Master Darkfire in the battlefield of Gumo Plane, but if he really reached that situation in the future, he should not do it if he could!

The sharp drop of 80% in the number of people in the Holy Tower was enough to explain the problem.

The number of registered magicians in the Holy Tower of Darkfire was actually lower than that of the Holy Tower of Azure Origin.

A few months ago, Sean handed over this data to the fifth-level magician Darkfire who returned to the wizard world.

The tower master did not have much emotional fluctuations about the separation phenomenon happening in the Holy Tower. He even praised Sean and others for their good crisis public relations.

After that, Sean never saw the tower master again.

It was not that Darkfire stayed indoors, but three months ago, several knights and magicians with strong auras above level 4 arrived at the Holy Tower of Darkfire.

There was no conflict or battle. The tower master Darkfire followed these four-level beings and left honestly.

According to the information that the tower master conveyed cryptically before he left, it would take at least three years for him to come back after this "outing".

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Half a year later, the tide of registered magicians leaving the Dark Fire Holy Tower finally slowed down.

Those registered magicians who could leave had already left.

The remaining 3,000 people are basically magicians who have a certain sense of belonging to the Dark Fire Holy Tower, or magicians who will not leave the Holy Tower for the time being due to various reasons.

It must be said that the departure of a large number of elite magicians has left the Dark Fire Holy Tower, which once had a fairly good development, with only a few big cats and small cats left. None of the two demigod-level magicians stayed, and dozens of third-level great magicians also left.

Counting Sean, the "pseudo-third-level", the number of third-level great magicians that the entire Dark Fire Holy Tower can gather is no more than a handful.

"With the strength of the Dark Fire Master and the years of the Holy Tower, even if it had not experienced this incident, the development and operation of this Holy Tower can only be called 'mediocre'." Afterwards, Sean sighed.

In addition to being busy restoring the basic operation of the Holy Tower, Sean, who had dealt with the withdrawal of registered magicians, immediately faced another problem.

"The Holy Tower Academy will start recruiting students in the second half of the year, but we are now facing a serious shortage of students."

"Not only is there a serious shortage of new apprentices, but even many apprentices who have studied for a period of time have dropped out in succession in the past period of time." Vice Dean Bob walked up to Sean and said.

In terms of strength, Bob is not Sean's opponent. This is a legitimate academic magician, although he looks rough.

In terms of ability, Sean's performance in the past six months has proved his talent.

If it were Bob, he would not have the confidence to retain more than a thousand first-level magicians for the Holy Tower.

Therefore, although the leadership team of the Dark Fire Holy Tower Academy has shrunk a lot, it is generally united and stable.

Under the premise that the fifth-level tower master has always been a hands-off boss, what the Holy Tower can develop into actually depends mainly on the performance of these deans.

The enrollment of apprentices in a region is inseparable from the number of magicians above level one born locally.

The ordinary human class in the wizard world generally maintains the social structure of aristocrats and commoners.

Those who are qualified to contact and learn magic are all those aristocratic families, and those magic families whose ancestors have magicians above level one.

The wave of registered magicians leaving the Dark Fire Holy Tower in recent years has also completely disconnected the families represented by these magicians from the Dark Fire Holy Tower.

Not only that, many apprentices who are studying are the younger generations of these magicians above level one.

When those magicians above level one leave, they will naturally take their younger generations with them.

This is also the reason why Sean sighed before that he must not follow the footsteps of the Dark Fire Master in the future.

Water can carry a boat but can also overturn it. If people's hearts are scattered, it will be difficult to lead the Holy Tower.

At the same time, Sean had to admire the broad-mindedness of the tower master. From the other party's performance, Sean did not see any psychological pressure on the tower master at all.

The only good news is that the regional Saint Tower Academy War just ended seventeen years ago.

The next Academy War will start thirty-three years later.

Sean and others still have enough time to prepare.

Due to the poor relationship between the Dark Fire Holy Tower and several Holy Towers in the surrounding areas, Sean learned from Vice Dean Wilms that the apprentices of the Dark Fire Holy Tower in previous years have always been the target of joint efforts by other Holy Tower apprentices.

But even under this premise, the apprentices of each Dark Fire Holy Tower can still achieve remarkable results.

In the last regional Holy Tower Academy War, the Dark Fire Holy Tower achieved a good result of second place in the overall standings, stepping on several surrounding Holy Towers.

Regarding this phenomenon, Sean couldn't help but sigh, is it the motivation brought by excessive pressure?

The recruitment of apprentices is undoubtedly a major event for a Holy Tower.

Even this matter is more important than the exodus of those magicians above the official level!

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Whether a Saint Tower can prosper for a long time is not determined by the total number of registered magicians at that time, but by the Saint Tower's ability to generate blood and the ability to supplement new magicians above the official level.

If even the recruitment of apprentices is interrupted, then the Dark Fire Saint Tower is not far from bankruptcy.

In previous years, the person in charge of the recruitment of apprentices was the demigod magician Kayit.

It was the old demigod magician who could not make up his mind and ordered the space fortress to open fire on the battlefield of the Gumo plane.

He is a respected person in the Dark Fire Saint Tower and the surrounding areas. With his popularity and reputation, he can bring many excellent apprentice seeds to the Dark Fire Saint Tower every year.

But this old demigod magician left the Dark Fire Saint Tower a year ago.

Since Sean was the third batch to return, he didn't even meet this demigod-level old wizard.

Kayit left, and Bob and others didn't have much experience in recruiting apprentices, including their connections, which were really average.

Therefore, the crucial matter of recruiting apprentices still fell on Sean's young shoulders.

Frowning slightly, Sean looked at Bob in front of him, and after a long pause, he said: "Regarding the recruitment of apprentices, I will think of a way next, you don't have to worry."

Although he didn't know what method Sean had come up with, Bob, who had green hair, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

To be honest, he didn't want to see the Dark Fire Holy Tower fall.

After all, he had been here for nearly a thousand years and had some feelings for it.