In addition to the wizarding community, First University is also home to numerous vassal races of magical creatures.

Such as fishmen, nymphs, minotaurs, centaurs, giants, goblins, dwarves, and so on. It's just that unlike the fish-man tribe with a short temperament and an irritable temperament and a lot of dark history, because they don't need to be placed under residential surveillance, the tribes of other magical creatures have a little more freedom.

Most notably, the other tribes of magical creatures can choose to live outside of the school.

For example, many students of the First University often only hear their names and do not see the Giant tribe in the heart of the Silent Forest all year round, and many unlucky students have not had the opportunity to meet the living giants in the four years they have spent in the First University.

Another example is the Minotaurs, because there are many people, their wisdom is slightly higher, and their combat effectiveness is not weak, so they can choose to live in the middle of the Silent Forest and compete for living space with those strange magical creatures in the forest. Often, it is only during the annual Kuroshio Tide that these tribes briefly migrate to the shelter of the First University.

In addition, there is a very special type of vassal race, which lives outside the school, but because of its special habits, it does not have a fixed residence, but lives in pursuit of water and grass prey. The most famous of these races is the Centaur tribe.

Every summer and autumn when the grass is abundant and the game is abundant, the centaur tribe will migrate to the depths of the silent forest to avoid the coveted eyes of wizards, and in late winter and early spring, when the prey is scarce, the centaurs will move back to the vicinity of the school to earn some food for the wizards to keep the tribe alive.

Outside of Alpha Castle, there is a small camp set aside by First University for this migrating centaur tribe as a temporary residence for them during the spring famine. Because the camp is close to the town of Beta, the school has also entrusted the management of the town of Beta.

When the centaur tribe needed it, the Beta Town Council hired North District Tricksters to clean up the camp, and outside of late winter and early spring, the camp was leased out by the Beta Town Council as a temporary open warehouse for the town's merchants to use. The income from the lease is divided into three parts, one part is handed over to the First University School Committee, one part is collected by the management committee of Beta Town in the name of management fees, and the last part is given to the centaur tribe as their additional income.

Every year, there was nothing controversial about it.

It's just that in recent times, the centaur tribe living outside Fort Alpha has become a little restless. They questioned the way the Beta Township Board of Management handled rental income.

According to the opinion of the Centaur tribe, since the camp has been assigned to the management of the Centaur tribe by the First University, the income will naturally be dominated by the centaur tribe, rather than being divided into three equal parts as it is now. In particular, a third of it was taken by the Beta Town Management Committee - which is equivalent to a property steward taking a third of the landlord's rent, and any wizard with a modicum of business acumen would not agree to such a contract.

That is, the centaur tribe was too lazy to deal with those merchants in Beta Town in previous years, so they let them take advantage of this.

But this year, the horses felt they couldn't go on like this.

Tracing back to the roots, it is actually because of the silent resurgence last year. Because of the abnormal return of silence, the ecosystem in the forest has been damaged to a certain extent, and the area where the Centaur tribe could get enough food in previous years is still barren in the early spring of this year. So the tribe had to stay in this camp for a longer period of time.

The horses didn't have much business acumen, and they suffered a lot of losses when they traded with wizards, and the belongings they had accumulated on weekdays were quickly consumed by the profiteers of Beta Town.

In a normal year, the centaur tribe can receive many tasks in the town - such as assisting the town in defending against the Kuroshio, acting as a model for some artists, playing as the blue side of a wizard hunting team, serving as a courier, and so on.

But this year, because in addition to the centaur tribe, there are many other magical tribes large and small that have also been affected and have temporarily migrated to the outskirts of the school, so the number and price of the centaur tribe in Beta Town are much lower. In particular, those well-paid sparring partners, combat and other work were robbed of a large part by other tribes.

After coming and going, this spring is not over yet, and the centaur tribe has fallen into a more embarrassing situation.

Before they learned to throttle and couldn't find a new source of money, the tribal elders finally turned their attention to the rents collected by the Beta Town Management Committee every year.

In addition, there was no agreement between the tribe and the council, but only a verbal agreement, which was just the opportunity to sign a formal contract to adjust the rent.

The centaur tribe has a good vision, but the management committee of Beta Town is not a dry meal.

As the only town on the outskirts of the four colleges, the Beta Town Management Committee has a strong role in it, especially since many of its members are made up of merchants large and small in the town, and they are deeply disgusted by any violation of the 'agreement'. Even though the centaur tribe had not signed any contracts with the Council in the first place.

In the eyes of the merchants, the centaur tribe can propose to change the rent sharing method today, and tomorrow it will be possible to re-agree on the rent of the premises? You know, it is rare to see such a large empty open-air camp around Fort Alpha, and such a cheap rent is rare.

Because it was a matter of vital interests, the management committee refused in the face of the horses' proposal to re-cut the rent.

This is how the conflict came about.

Due to the existence of First University, the conflict between the Beta Town Council and the Centaur tribe has been suppressed for a very small time. However, with the recent conflict between the Fish-Man Tribe and the Nine Existence Academy, many media, including the "Beta-Town Post", as well as Alpha Academy, have unanimously supported the Fish-Man Tribe's actions to protect their legitimate rights and interests.

In the eyes of the Centaurs, there is no essential difference between the Fish-Man Tribe's protection of their rights and interests in Linzhong Lake and the Centaur Tribe's protection of their rights and interests in the camp outside the fort.

Since Alpha Academy supports the behavior of the Fish-Man Tribe, it naturally supports the Centaur Tribe.

Motivated by this, some of the young foals of the Centaur tribe felt that they too could learn the exciting tricks of the Fishman tribe and 'go ashore' to demand their fair share of profits from their opponents.

And, in the eyes of these foals, their opponents are not at all on the same level as the Fish-Man Tribe, and should be able to win more easily.

In this way, as the struggle escalated on the shores of Linzhong Lake, the conflict outside Alpha Castle also heated up.