"Who is the principal of the School of Moon Slayer?" Liszt asked after Hippolyta had been taken away.
"Baron Rick Footprint."
"Rick." Liszt remembered that Rick had been his classmate at the Knight Academy, followed him since the Fresh Flower Town era, and had been seriously injured and nearly died on his first battlefield. After that, he had lingering physical issues and started on the administrative path, "Tell Rick to educate Hippolyta well. He's someone I'm particularly focused on."
"Understood, Your Highness!"
As the Moon Slayer Tribe continued to be integrated, the serf population from the tribe on his territories had exceeded two hundred thousand, including as many as four thousand ancient mages. The knights, magicians, and civilians who had migrated from the Flame Territory—that is, the "Flame People"—totaled less than twenty thousand.
Such a disproportionate ratio made the rule of the Flame People perilous.
