74 Chapter 73: Recruitment day! (1/2)
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”Damn it! It's still so early in the morning and the queue was already this long?!” said a student who just came.
”Hais, be patient fellow brother. According to the number of people here, we should be able to register after queuing for 2 hours!” replied another student who was in front of him.
”What, 2 hours?! Curses!!”
At first, Duan Li and the gang had only opened up one booth to cater the needs of the application process today. But who would've thought that people was already waiting outside the gate of the residence court so early in the morning?
Therefore, Shen Lu decided to open another two booths after the public was disgruntled for waiting too long. Furthermore, Duan Li had also allowed the people waiting to enter the garden area of his residence court so that they could cultivate while waiting.
”To think that the new Lord class, Duan Li,was someone this rich, he sure has deeply hidden himself for our information network to not be able to expect this at all!” said a student that has a Strategist token on his waist.
”I know right? My sources told me that he was just a pauper from a faraway Xuan village! But look at this residence court, this has to be the most expensive out of all of them!” commented another student with a strategist token as well.
A senior student contemplated for a moment before adding his own thoughts towards their conversation, ”Could it be that he has someone that can pull the strings to be able to purchase this expensive residence court?”
”That's impossible! The administration was supervised by both the vice-principal and the principal himself! They were both from a different faction, it would take a miracle for them to collude together and allow such a thing to happen!” interjected his friend as they continued to speculate and reassessed Duan Li's worth.
Meanwhile, Duan Li was getting a little bit anxious with the increasing number of students that came into his residence court. The garden was slowly getting crowded by the minute as people started to push around, getting impatient from waiting.
The early birds were people that had got wind of the news early, and they decided to camp out directly in front of the residence court overnight. Whereas the people that had just arrived were those that came due to words of mouth that was spread like wildfire in the academy.
Shen Lu even went to the extent of spending some of his money to print out a lot of flyers and released them from the air as he flew around this morning.
At first when the people who knew about the recruitment but wasn't interested in it picked up the flyer, they sneered in disdain over their effort. But when they read the details of the location, their eyes immediately bulged out from their sockets and bolted straight into the air!
This residence court was something that was worth more than 50 high quality spirit stones to purchase! Just the fact that Duan Li was able to bought it, had already told them how capable the former was in his financial means alone.
If they were to be able to serve under such a Lord, their life and cultivation would definitely be smooth sailing!
This was because, even though the academy would give them coupons that entitled them for some free resources for their cultivation, it was quite limited and everything else must be purchased.
With higher cultivation realm, naturally the price would become steeper too. Therefore, the students had to find their own source of income by opening their own stores and workshops.
Roughly around 90 percent of the revenues made inside the academy were by private sectors that was owned and managed by the students faction alone, only some were controlled by the empire and other external influence.
And as such, who wouldn't want to serve under an extremely wealthy Lord class like Duan Li? All of these people that came were trying their luck, to see if they got the affinity for it.
”The number of people here are beyond my expectations, the total applicants that has signed up so far was already beyond 500! We just opened an hour ago too!” exclaimed Duan Li in a shock.
After making a decision, Duan Li instructed Shen Lu and the rest to close up their booth within one hour and to continue the recruitment next day.
This was because it was already approaching the time for class. If a lot of students were to escape their class just to sign up at their booth, some teachers would definitely filed a complaint to the administration, and he might get a reprimand for it.
This was especially the case when Duan Li found out that most of the applicants decided to stay and cultivate due to the rich and dense spiritual Qi in the garden. The more unruly ones that took advantage of the chaos even had the guts to pluck out some of his neatly arranged medicinal herbs and koi fishes from the pond illegally.
Naturally, this was something that Duan Li could not endure. Thus, he flicked the residence court token to expel these opportunist and thieving bastards out forcefully and reclaimed back his stolen goods.
And then, as an opportunist himself, Duan Li demanded compensation from them by threatening to report the matter of their unethical misconduct to the academy!
One had to know that Duan Li was someone with a passive personality. Thus, if others were to go overboard with their behaviour, he would definitely go a little more overboard than them as well.
When Shen Lu and the rest saw this side of his, they could see a new personality to Duan Li that they didn't knew beforehand. Somehow, this forceful action made by Duan Li onto those offenders caused them to start feeling reverence towards him as their Lord.
Now, they were more confident to serve under him, as the surrounding people becomes more reserved with their actions while they were inside the residence court and was no longer showing dissatisfied expression as well.