Upon hearing that, Joseph and Andrew’s expressions froze. It was difficult for their families to come up with 10 gold coins in a year, let alone hundreds of gold coins!
Their parents had gone through great difficulties in coming up with the 10 gold coins for this magic assessment. Where could they get hundreds of gold coins for them to enter a warrior academy for their training?
“Warrior training is only for the rich. This is not a joke!” Captain Hudders sighed. “The training of Magicians and Warriors is made possible with money, enough to suck dry a small bourgeoisie family. How can commoners like us afford it?”
After saying that, he glanced at Jonah as his eyes flashed with worry. It was a good thing to have magic talent, but entering the magic academy was the beginning of spending money!
Jonah was different from Meng Lei, who did not need to pay for any tuition or fees and had an attractive scholarship grant. Where would she find the money for the next few years of expenses?
Meng Lei was silent.
Jonah clenched her teeth and was pale with fright!
“Let’s go. You all must be tired after being in the line for the entire day. Let’s find a place to eat, and go back to the hotel to rest!”
Hudders waved his hand. “In two days’ time, after Meng Lei and Jonah enter the magic academy, I will take Joseph and Andrew back to the village. The expenses in the capital city are too high...”
“Return back to the village?”
Meng Lei fell into deep thought.
Chapter 23: A Long History, Ranked Ninth In The Continent
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Was Meng Lei rich?
No, not really!
As of now, his total assets came up to only 2,306 gold coins, as well as the 5,000 gold coins per year scholarship grant that hadn’t entered his pocket yet!
Although this bit of assets naturally couldn’t compare to the nobility and the filthy rich merchants, it was still far better than the commoner class that struggled to feed themselves.
This wasn’t the point, however!
The point was that money came to him fairly easily because he could pick it up at any time, anywhere!
Meng Lei had been picking up dropped items the whole time ever since he had arrived in the capital city. Gold coins, stats light balls, spells... In fact, he had even picked up... A grand total of three battle skills!
Additionally, the more crowded a place was, the more dropped items there would be!
As the capital of Fire Dragon Kingdom, what the capital city lacked the least was people, especially when the term was beginning for each of the major academies during this recent period. As such, a large number of people had entered the capital city!
With people around, things would naturally drop!
Naturally, this went to Meng Lei’s benefit!
And wasn’t that so? Because it hadn’t even been a day since he had arrived in the capital city, yet his pockets were already overflowing from the number of items he had picked up, and all of his various stats had undergone a tremendous change!
Host: Meng Lei
Race: Human
Wealth: 2,306 gold coins
Physical Body Constitution: Third-Grade Warrior (502/1,000)
Spirit: Second-Grade Magician (213/500)
Magic Power: First-Grade Magician (199/200)
Others: Some increase
The number of gold coins he possessed had doubled and a little more!
His body was comparable to a Third-Grade Warrior’s!
His spiritual power had entered the ranks of a Second-Grade Magician’s!
His magic power lacked only 1 point to become comparable to a Second-Grade Magician’s!
There were even quite a few more spells in his repertoire now, too!
As for battle skills... He had picked up three of them for some reason!
Tsk, tsk, the capital city certainly lives up to its name as the place where billionaires and experts congregate. It hasn’t even been a day, and I’ve already picked up this much. Can you imagine how it’ll be like in the future?
The capital city... I’ve certainly made the right choice in coming here!
Meng Lei was very satisfied with his rewards today, and he believed that there would only be more and more rewards in the future!
Therefore, could he use some of his gold coins to help two of his companions out financially, so that they could attend school here?
Meng Lei secretly mused over this. As long as Joseph and Andrew were a little more diligent and became Trainee Warriors within the first year, they would become able to easily earn money at that point.
After that, they would be able to support themselves and successfully finish their studies. By the time they successfully graduated, no matter how poorly they did, they would also have become Fourth-Grade Warriors.
How could the riches that Fourth-Grade Warriors could create possibly be just 200 gold coins? There was no need to worry that they couldn’t pay him back!
In other words, as long as I loan out 200 gold coins, I can change two of my companions’ lives. That’s a pretty good deal!
However, when they heard Meng Lei’s thoughts, a huge jolt went through Hudders, Jonah, Joseph, and Andrew. All of them thought that they had misheard!
“Meng Lei, you’re not joking with us, are you?”
Hudders looked closely at Meng Lei and said, “I know that you have a scholarship grant of 5,000 gold coins per year, but magic cultivation has much higher expenses than Warriors’. The 5,000 gold coins grant may not even be enough for you to buy magic potions and magic materials!”
“Captain Hudders, you don’t need to say any more. I know what I’m doing!”
Meng Lei waved and looked at Joseph and Andrew. He said, “I’m also very poor, so I can only help you out financially for a year. You’ll have to depend on yourselves after
