In addition to Mages, Qiankun Pagoda also found many people in the slums who had a high talent for Warriors or Rogues.
There were far more people with the talent of high-grade warriors and rogues than those with the talent of mages.
According to Qiankun Pagoda's rough estimate, the proportion of people with high-grade Mage talents in the crowd was about four in ten thousand.
However, nearly one percent of people had the talent to become high-grade Warriors. There were fewer people with the talent to become Rogues, but the proportion was not less than one-third of Warriors, far higher than the proportion of Mages.
Among the more than 300,000 people in the slums, more than 2,000 people had the talent to become high-grade Warriors or Rogues.
With so many people, Feng Chou naturally did not have the ability to digest them. For these people, if there was no miracle, they might never have the opportunity to become high-grade professions.
Feng Chou increased the screening conditions. In the end, Qiankun Pagoda screened more than 140 people with the potential to become Legendary Warriors or Rogues among the more than 300,000 people in the two slums.
Among them, nearly 30 guys even had the talent to become Legendary Warriors or Rogues.
Unfortunately, among these people, many of them had their bodies destroyed by poverty, and their potential was damaged.
Only those young people under the age of 20 still had a chance.
After excluding the criminals and villains who had fallen, Qiankun Pagoda initially locked in more than 40 targets.
Among these 40 targets, eight were orphans.
Several of them could no longer be regarded as orphans because, according to the slums' view, above the age of 12, they were already considered adults who could support themselves.
During the scan, Qiankun Pagoda also found that in the slums, many evil gods, false gods, and devils' beliefs were secretly spreading. These church organizations also searched for talented people in the slums, but they mostly searched for people with Perception talents.
Qiankun Pagoda put all the 13 orphans who were initially locked in the Qiankun Pagoda and confused them with illusion.
In the illusion, these orphans experienced all kinds of stories. Some were abducted by human traffickers, some were robbed by gangs, and finally sold as slaves to a Baron …
In short, in their memories, they were sent to Baron Amborite's villa for various legitimate reasons, but in fact, it was just their illusion. They were taken from the slums by Qiankun Pagoda and stayed in the Qiankun Pagoda for a few days to do various tests. Then, Feng Chou found an opportunity to throw them out of Qiankun Pagoda and threw them into several rooms in the backyard of the villa.
Feng Chou took Chapman, Knight Attendant Natasha, and several recently recruited servants to a row of servants' rooms at the edge of the villa's backyard. He announced that he had just adopted a group of young people from an underground slave merchant channel. he planned to train to train these young people to be his personal attendants.
The 14 young people had been completely cleaned up in Qiankun Pagoda.
The reason why there were 14 of them was because, among these orphans, there was only one under the age of ten who had an older brother.
Although his brother did not meet Feng Chou's selection criteria, he seemed to be quite good. This guy had the intelligence talent of an intermediate mage and the physique talent of an advanced warrior.
If an orphan under the age of ten was not adopted, it would be very difficult for them to survive alone in the slums. Most of the people there could not even protect themselves, and did not have the ability to help others.
Fortunately, many churches were willing to adopt orphans under the age of ten, and even some nobles were willing to adopt them.
Orphans under the age of ten, who were as white as a sheet of paper, could easily be trained into fanatics or death warriors by the churches.
This was what puzzled Feng Chou's subordinates. The orphans that Feng Chou claimed to adopt were mostly teenagers above the age of ten. These people more or less had their own worldview, and it would be very difficult to train them into death warriors. What was even more strange was that there were six girls in this group of teenagers.
However, no one tried to persuade Feng Chou, and they only cautiously expressed that they would follow his orders.
This was also a sign that Feng Chou and his subordinates had not established trust and feelings. The vassals and servants who did not know the whereabouts of their lord did not dare and were not willing to take the risk of angering him by persuading him.
Feng Chou divided the group of children into two groups. The five children with the talent of being mages would be taught by him personally, and the rest would be given to Natasha, who would teach them as knights.
Feng Chou converted a room on the second floor of the villa into a classroom.
When he first stepped on the podium and looked down at the five students, for a moment, he even thought that he was facing a group of adults.
From the eyes of these teenagers, he saw confusion, vigilance, scrutiny … and a depth that was hard to come by for adults …
Feng Chou scanned the faces of the five students, and without saying a word, he turned around and began to write a word on the blackboard …
The first lesson that Feng Chou gave these genius students was very simple, literacy.
This literacy lesson could be said to be simple, but it could also be said to be amazing.
Feng Chou taught more than a hundred new words in this class. He had taught almost all the new words that an ordinary child would need half a year to master in this world's introductory materials to the students in this class.
In this lesson, he only taught the lesson step by step, and did not add any preaching.
In fact, Feng Chou never intended to brainwash these super-intelligent geniuses and train them into loyal subordinates.
For these super-intelligent geniuses, this was almost an impossible task.
In fact, among the mages in this world, there were very few outstanding believers. The smarter a person was, the harder it was for them to trust others without reservation, even if that other person was a god.
In this world, even the God of Arcane Magic would not dream of turning high-ranked mages into his devout believers.
Feng Chou would not be so arrogant as to think that he was better than a god.
Therefore, Feng Chou's plan from the beginning was not to brainwash them, nor did he ask for their loyalty. His future relationship with these super-intelligent geniuses was to maintain a certain degree of emotional exchange.
This was the attitude that one should have when dealing with mages.
Anyone who tried to brainwash mages would not have a good ending, because mages themselves were a profession that pursued the truth. Brainwashing would either hinder the progress of mages and obtain a batch of mediocre talents, or fail, and the brainwasher would suffer the wrath and backlash of the mages.
In the following days, Feng Chou sighed at the crazy speed at which these geniuses absorbed knowledge, while accelerating the teaching of knowledge step by step.
Under the nourishment of knowledge, this group of youths who were born in the slums underwent a drastic change, like a chemical reaction.
Finally, one day, during a break in class, the oldest of the five youths, Hugo, voiced their doubts. "Sir Baron, why did you buy us and teach us knowledge? What do you want from us?"
The name Hugo was, of course, given by Feng Chou. These children's original names could not even be considered names, but were just nicknames.
Hugo's question was like a horn being blown. Ten scrutinizing gazes landed on Feng Chou's body.