After returning to Casablanca, Feng Chou simply brought the teenagers and Natasha back to Wood Manor. He wanted to calm down and carry out the training of the Steel Spirit School.
Feng Chou also transferred Owen to the villa in Casablanca to be responsible for the safety of the villa.
Every few days, he would have his magic pet send a letter to Chapman, telling him the list and details of the families that needed to be brought out of the slums.
The families that Chapman brought out of the slums were all sent to Wood Manor.
Feng Chou built some new houses in the village and arranged for these families to live in. He claimed that after these people were trained, they would be sent to the new Amborite and become farmers there.
Feng Chou also quietly recruited the children that he had his eyes on, which were his real targets, into the villa, claiming that he would train them to be warriors and servants of the new territory.
These new children were divided into three groups. One group was strong enough to become Natasha's disciples and receive knight training. Feng Chou also hired a few assistants for Natasha at a high price. These people included retired mercenaries, retired knights, and old wanderers.
The other group was invited by Feng Chou to teach them writing, mathematics, agriculture, law, and other knowledge.
Some of the smarter ones among these children were taken into Feng Chou's classroom and taught by himself.
Educating a group of monsters with an Intelligence Quotient of over 30 was actually not a difficult task. Feng Chou only needed to teach them the most basic words and how to use the reference books, and they would be able to absorb the knowledge on their own at a faster and faster rate.
All Feng Chou had to do was open his library to them.
Except for the first batch of orphans, Feng Chou did not even need to teach the newcomers in person. He only needed to arrange for the first batch of orphans, Hugo and Gauss, who had a strong sense of responsibility, to take turns teaching the newcomers how to read.
All Feng Chou had to do was to check on everyone's progress every few days and give each of them a list of books that they needed to read in the next few days.
Feng Chou focused most of his energy on the cultivation of the Steel Soul School.
Other than meeting his students every few days and showing his face in front of the other apprentices, Feng Chou spent most of his time locked in the Mage's laboratory on the other side of the river.
In fact, Feng Chou spent most of his time in the laboratory in the Qiankun Pagoda. With the help of Qiankun Pagoda's illusion, he practiced the meditation technique "Hydegaard's Agony".
According to Qiankun Pagoda's observation, the effect of this meditation technique was very obvious. His "Dao Heart" was steadily strengthening.
Feng Chou also gradually realized that the power of Hydegarr, which was difficult to control like a flood, was becoming less violent.
In addition, he also found that with the improvement of his Dao Heart, his perception was also gradually increasing. Soon, it was divided into two different attributes: internal and external.
Qiankun Pagoda told Feng Chou that a person's perception was mainly related to the quality of the soul. The purer the soul, the more sensitive it was. The reason why his perception was divided into two directions was mainly related to the effect of the meditation technique "Hydegaard's Agony". This meditation technique focused too much on internal perception.
These gains made Feng Chou's painful cultivation not so painful.
While practicing Hydegaard's Agony Meditation, Feng Chou was also practicing as a warrior.
In fact, after the intermediate golden dragon bloodline ceremony, Feng Chou's potential as a warrior had greatly increased. It was only a matter of time before he became a high-ranking warrior.
For Feng Chou, practicing as a warrior was actually equivalent to digesting the benefits of the golden dragon bloodline ceremony.
With the help of Qiankun Pagoda's painful illusion, super-gravity training field, combat illusion … and other training methods, Feng Chou's Steel Soul School training, warrior training, and combat training had all made rapid progress.
First was the advancement of Hydegaard's Agony Meditation. After the golden dragon bloodline ceremony, Feng Chou's physical attributes and all aspects had exceeded the requirements to become a high-ranking warrior. What he needed to do was to familiarize himself with and master the sudden increase in his physical attributes, and to improve the level of Hydegaard's Agony Meditation.
Feng Chou used the Burning Flame meditation technique and very easily stimulated the second advancement of Hydegaard's Agony Meditation, allowing "Hydegaard's Agony Meditation" to advance to the more powerful "Advanced Hydegaard's Strength" and successfully stimulated "Secondary Hydegaard's Blaze".
"Secondary Hydegaard's Blaze" allowed the warrior to gain temporary immunity to low-level spells and the ability to resist and weaken the power of mid-level spells. This gave the warrior a little more confidence in front of the mage.
The next step was to further familiarize himself with Advanced Hydegaard's Agony Meditation and further explore his physical potential. The golden dragon bloodline ceremony not only gave him the physical attributes of a level-13 warrior, but also gave him a terrifying physical potential. After he took the advanced knight potion and trained in the super-gravity training field, his physical attributes were changing every day.
Feng Chou only used two months to quickly familiarize himself with and master the use of Advanced Hydegaard's Agony Meditation.
The second breakthrough was the practice of the Steel Soul School.
After half a year of hard work, Feng Chou successfully promoted his Daoist Heart to the "Heart of Glazed Glass".
Unfortunately, the "Heart of Glazed Glass" could only control the ordinary sea of Hydegaard's Agony Meditation. It still couldn't tame Advanced Hydegaard's Agony Meditation, which required a stronger Daoist Heart.
But even so, the "Heart of Glazed Glass" allowed Feng Chou to use Advanced Hydegaard's Agony Meditation with greater ease and flexibility than the average high-order warrior. Even a veteran warrior who had been advancing for many years couldn't compare to him. This was a qualitative improvement that couldn't be made up with experience and time.
Not long after Feng Chou broke through the "Heart of Glazed Glass", he received a letter from the new Amborite. The letter told him that the new Amborite castle had been completed, and only the interior was left.
The interior of a castle often reflected the heritage of a noble family. If the interior wasn't well done, it would easily leave the impression of a poor or nouveau riche to outsiders.
Feng Chou wasn't good at this. Fortunately, he had Chapman, a butler from an old noble family.
Feng Chou gave Chapman five hundred thousand crowns and let him be fully responsible for the interior of the new castle.
As for the recruitment mission that Chapman was originally in charge of, it was completely stopped by Feng Chou.
Just half a month ago, when Chapman was recruiting a young man with the talent of a high-level mage, he almost collided with another group of people with the same goal. Fortunately, the other party was one step ahead, and the two sides didn't have a direct confrontation.
In fact, Feng Chou had long realized that there was a hidden risk in recruiting talents in the slums. If other forces found out, it would arouse the curiosity and investigation of some dark forces. He couldn't explain how he found these talents so accurately. Although the possibility of this was small, there was a possibility that his most fundamental secret would be exposed. So, after that incident, Feng Chou simply stopped the recruitment mission. After all, he had recruited more than half of his targets. The most suitable talents that Qiankun Pagoda had evaluated had been recruited first.