Chapter 82 Recruiting Apprentices
The second phase of the Mage Tower project was progressing very quickly. While Richard was busy building resource points and making the Eye of Mysticism, Richard's clone was also in charge of the second phase of the construction of the Mage Tower.

The second phase of the project requires the tower to be expanded from the original five floors to nine floors. According to the design blueprint, the total height of the nine-story tower will reach 150 meters.

The total height of the first five floors is only 25 meters, while the height of the last four floors reaches meters. The average height of each floor is more than meters, and the height of the ninth floor will reach meters.

The ninth floor tower takes up so much space because there are many things that need to be installed, such as the observatory, magic particle railgun, control center, navigation platform, and maze lock center that need to be installed on the top of the tower.

The sixth floor of the Mage Tower was to be built into a golem workshop, where the Mage Tower's golem army would be stationed. Richard planned to use the seventh floor as a dormitory for mage apprentices and their study and activity area, and the eighth floor as a library.

Many things on the fifth floor will be moved to the ninth floor, and then the fifth floor of the Mage Tower will be used as a laboratory.

Because of the large number of skeletons working day and night, and the use of magic [Turning Mud into Stone], the construction of the Mage Tower was very fast. It only took two months to complete the overall construction of the Mage Tower. The next step was to engrave the rune array.

The clone was extremely busy, so Richard's life was relatively leisurely. However, today he planned to go and see the orphans who had just been sent there from all over America.

In the past three months, Richard's company has found tens of thousands of orphans in various places in America through various means. Then, they conducted a first screening of these orphans and finally selected more than 100 people. Next, Richard will conduct a second screening of the remaining children.

Children who passed the second screening would stay here. After signing the soul contract, they could learn the knowledge of the mage and become a glorious mage apprentice.

Richard conducted a test on these children. The content of the test was the content of the mage test formulated by the Supreme Arcane Council. As long as the test score reached 70 points, it meant that he had the qualifications to become a mage. If the score reached 90 points or above, he had the possibility of advancing to a high-level mage.

Only those who reach 95 points are qualified to become legends.

Richard's test score was 96 points, and his natural intelligence attribute was 17 points. He was able to achieve this high score thanks to his studies before crossing. At that time, he received a lot of scholarships by publishing a lot of arcane papers with novel viewpoints. He also used these scholarships to buy wishing scrolls and made a wish to increase his intelligence attribute.

Until he entered the legendary level, he would use the wishing spell and the big wishing spell to increase his intelligence attribute. Before coming to Blue Star, his intelligence had reached 32 points. Unfortunately, the damage caused to him by the space-time storm was too serious, causing his own attributes to drop a lot.

In a manor in the suburbs of New York.

More than 100 children were taking the test. It took about a day for all the children to take the test, and only 32 children passed the test in the end. However, among the 32 children, the highest score was only 86 points, not even 90 points.

Richard was not surprised by this result. According to the data provided by the Supreme Arcane Council, only one in three hundred children has the qualifications to become a mage, and only one in five thousand mage apprentices has the possibility of advancing to a legendary level. However, in reality, the rate of advancing to a legendary level is even lower than this data.

Because some people die on their path to growth.

After having the remaining children properly arranged, Richard brought them to the Mage Tower. When they saw the magical plants in the manor, these innocent children were immediately curious about magic.

After Richard performed a few simple spells and tricks, all the children became interested in this magical magic and wanted to learn it. Then Richard successfully signed a soul contract with these children.

Then Richard called the three children over and told them that these children would learn magic with them, and asked them to take them to get their personal belongings, dormitory keys and books. After learning that these children would learn magic with them, the three children suddenly brightened up, and then pretended to be old-fashioned, pointing at these new students and saying, "Are you the new students of the academy? What are your names?"

"George."

"John."

"Conor."

These newcomers reported their names carefully. Ever since they knew this was a magic academy, these kids thought that everyone here was a magician and a big shot. Without knowing the details, these kids were all intimidated. Although the three little ones looked about the same age as them, they all had an overwhelming aura that made them obey subconsciously.

"Welcome to the New York Academy of Magic. We will be classmates from now on."

"In college, you must respect your instructors and seniors, study hard, and listen carefully to what they say. Do you understand?" Pietro said with great momentum.

"I understand!" The thirty-two children nodded honestly.

"That's good. Besides, there are many dangerous areas in the academy. It's best not to go there unless necessary, especially the botanical garden. By the way, there are some flower fairies in the botanical garden. If you can defeat them, you will get a mysterious reward."

Hearing that there was a mysterious reward, many children were excited.

"By the way, there are many skeleton servants in the academy. Don't be afraid if you see them. They won't attack or hurt you. They are summoned by the instructors to do work."

"Okay, I'll take you there to get your things and get familiar with the environment."

After saying that, the three little ones turned around and left with the children. If someone looked at them from the front, they would find that the three little ones had a sly smile on their lips, as if they were feeling a little uncomfortable holding it back.

Seeing those children who were eager to try, the three little ones said silently in their hearts: Cherish your happy time now, and soon you will understand how difficult it is to learn magic.

Richard only smiled at the three little ones' bad taste. In the past, the three little ones were taught a lesson by the flower fairies many times, and they never won once. Now seeing their behavior, Richard thought it would be a good idea to keep this as a reserved project of the magic academy.

The three little ones were not lying. If someone is lucky enough to get the favor of the flower fairy, they can indeed get a mysterious gift. You know, the flower fairy has a lot of good things in his hands.

Just like the honey of hundreds of flowers, this kind of thing that can directly increase mental strength and magic power is better than many magic potions, and its effect is mild, making it suitable for apprentices.

(End of this chapter)