Chapter 742
No one knew when, but the formerly silent Icewind became lively once again.
Humans and intelligent lifeforms from various regions started to gather here, working and toiling toward a united goal.
There were the apprentice adepts of the Crimson Clan, the witch apprentices of the Fate Witches, the goblin apprentices selected from the Goblin Plane, as well as wandering apprentices that had come for the reputation of the clan. The Crimson Clan’s higher-ups had demonstrated rare compassion toward these apprentices, allowing them to reasonably enjoy the privilege of using the magical facilities of White Tower.
The spacious and comfortable living environments, the peaceful and harmonious atmosphere of study and scholarship, the powerful adept teachers, the systematic and comprehensive library, and the plentiful magical laboratories; all of these became the most attractive of magnets, firmly drawing the hearts of the apprentices to the tower and making them the loyal followers of the Crimson Clan.
Several different cliques had quickly formed within the apprentices after a few months of trials and studies. Several small social circles centered around powerful apprentices had silently developed based on the potential and talent of the individual apprentices themselves.
The core of these circles were almost always pseudo-adept apprentices!
Such pseudo-adept apprentices always belonged to a unique group in any clan. They might still belong to the category of an apprentice adept, but they were already starting to enjoy the privileges of a newly advanced adept from many other aspects.
In fact, even part of the basic curriculum of the apprentice adepts was taught by them.
If the meat were meant for the consumption of the adepts, the rich adepts would have no problem spending money on the preservation process. That allowed the hunting parties to make profits easily. However, trying to provide meat at the same price to middle and low-class human nobles was a foolish endeavor. These nobles would not be able to afford such a lavish magical creature feast even with all their worldly wealth.
The subordinate goblin engineers of White Tower had specially created a vacuum-sealed metal lunchbox for this matter, solving the issue in a perfect yet affordable manner. This process allowed for the possibility of selling high-energy magical creature meat at a low price!
It was through such methods that the White Tower successfully developed a living for the civilians who arrived in its territory. They only needed to learn the simple operation skills of a streamlined factory under the tutelage of the goblin technicians, and a qualified worker would be born!
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