Chapter 202 Mage Academy
The Eternal Fountain, according to legend, is the spring water given to Asgard by the World Tree. Legend has it that it is because of this spring water that all Asgardians have a lifespan of 5,000 years.
Of course, the legend is not accurate. Asgardians do not have a lifespan of 5,000 years because of this spring water. The effect of the Eternal Fountain is to increase the lifespan of ordinary people, but for Asgardians, the effect is not so good.
After all, it is not expensive for ordinary people to increase their lifespan, but if you want to increase the lifespan of gods, the cost is countless times that of ordinary people.
Maybe just a drop of the Eternal Fountain can give ordinary people a few hundred years of life, but if you want to increase Odin's lifespan by a few hundred years, the amount of the Eternal Fountain required is an astronomical figure.
The Eternal Fountain is used by the royal family of the Aesir to prolong their lifespan. Odin can live for more than 5,500 years, part of which is the effect of Odin's sleep, and part of which is the effect of the Eternal Fountain.
Thor plans to use the Eternal Fountain to give Jane a long life.
Richard is not optimistic about Thor and Jane. After all, the gap between their lives is too big, so let Odin worry about this problem.
Richard controlled the psychic fire and quickly melted the hammer, then separated the metals. In the end, he successfully separated a large piece of Uru metal from the hammer.
Richard couldn't understand why the Aesir had a special liking for hammers. Every time he saw Thor holding a hammer, he felt that Thor was like a blacksmith, always wanting to find an iron block to hit with a hammer for no reason.
The hammer in front of him looked like a wall for renovation, and Richard suddenly had a voice of eighty, eighty, eighty in his mind. Finally, he shook his head and swept these thoughts away.
Put away the Uru metal, and Richard also simply separated the remaining metals and saved them. Although these metals are not as good as Uru, they are also precious metals that can be used to make hammers.
The magic conduction effect and energy fusion of these Uru metals are stronger than Mithril, and the overall properties are more than double Mithril. Richard plans to use them to make element fusion furnaces.
In addition to Uru, demonized vibranium is also a good material for making element fusion furnaces. Richard used magic vibranium in the elemental fission furnace he made, and as a result, the power of the elemental fission furnace on the wizard tower was more than doubled, and it ran very stably.
Those people in Wakanda actually made vibranium into various cold weapons, which was simply a waste of natural resources. So Richard thought it would be better to give these things to him for safekeeping.
As for those people in Wakanda, they were doing well by mining, growing cotton, and growing some watermelons. I believe they would like it.
After seeing the hammer melted by Richard, Thor no longer planned to bring these hammers back to Asgard. After all, bringing them back was also to prevent the big snake Kul from breaking free from the seal with the hammer. Now that the hammer is destroyed, isn't it safer than taking it back to Asgard?
The problem of the hammer was solved, and Thor left Richard and ran to find his girlfriend Jane.
It was already dinner time when he saw Thor again. Seeing Thor appearing at the table on time, Richard couldn't help but complain: "Thor, I think you shouldn't be called Thor, you should be called glutton!"
"Richard, this is your misunderstanding of me!" Thor objected loudly.
"Misunderstanding? Then can you put down the ribs in your hand?" Richard rolled his eyes.
Thor quickly ate the ribs in his hand, and then said: "Richard, the food here is incredible and delicious. I swear, this is the best food I have eaten in more than a thousand years."
"Can you let Chef Guan go to Asgard? I want to ask him to teach me some cooking skills. After eating the food here, the food made by those chefs in Asgard is completely unpalatable."
"You wish, but you can let the chefs from Asgard come here to study. The tuition fee can be discounted by 10% and settled in Uru metal."
"I will recommend it to His Majesty the God King." Thor said as he finished a rib in three bites.
Richard's wizard tower is becoming more and more like a wizard academy.
The temple mages work for Richard, then earn a lot of points, and then use the points to exchange for knowledge, materials, and magic items.
With the help of this system, all the temple mages have become mages in the world of Motera. And Richard also issued a task for these mages to recruit apprentices.
Richard formulated a set of academy contracts, and all mages who want to learn spell knowledge and obtain various materials must sign a contract.
This contract is similar to the contract of the Magic Academy in the world of Motera. It strictly manages knowledge and does not allow private dissemination of knowledge in the academy. Mage apprentices will have a four-year free period to study here. After four years, they need to work to repay their debts after becoming formal mages. The debt basically needs to be repaid for twenty years.
Don't think that twenty years of debt is too much. The university loan here in America is much more expensive than this. It took O'Heizi 21 years to pay off the loan.
And if you buy more knowledge, conduct various magic experiments, and use potions, then this repayment will take more time, but if you don't do these, it will be very difficult for mages to get promoted.
Although they need to repay the loan, it is much better than the previous repayment with their lives. When Richard thought of this, he felt that he was too kind.
As for whether these mages will be free in 20 years? Richard would say that you think too simply.
Ordinary mages will find it difficult to survive if they leave here. What is the use of mages who have no magic materials, no knowledge, and only master some low-level spells?
As long as they still want to be promoted, they can only stay in the Mage Tower and work for Richard, willingly begging Richard to exploit them.
In the Mage Tower, they need points for food, clothing, housing and transportation. Of course, there are free ones, but few people can eat ordinary food after being used to magic food. They will feel uncomfortable living in ordinary houses after being used to living in residences with rich elemental energy.
What's that saying? You can't even get a number if you want to be exploited.
These temple mages have found some talented children from all over the place. They are the new batch of apprentices in the Mage Academy. There are more children in this batch, more than 300 people, and the temple mage who is responsible for teaching them is basically part-time.
After several years of development, the faculty of the academy is very sufficient. Richard arranged a schedule for the temple, and there will be one or two courses a week. It is more than enough to teach these apprentices through the distribution of the tower spirit.
The Mage Academy has a four-year academic system, which can be delayed by up to one year. If you complete your studies normally, you will basically be a formal mage. Richard planned to continue to expand the number of people after the floating city was built, and recruit wizard apprentices every year, so that he could continuously provide him with leeks and cattle and horses.
A floating city needs at least 5,000 wizards to support it, but this is only the most basic. The subsequent large floating cities will require tens of thousands of people, or even hundreds of thousands.
He needs a lot of consumables.