This withering white tree with orange leaves will die in about 5 years from now on, taking Alia in the process as well. Long story short, her life was connected to this tree, or more like she wasn't exactly a human but an embodint of the tree.
How can sothing like that exist? Well, the answer lies in the man who experinted on this particular tree. This tree, or also known as the Lignum Vitae, brimming with life energy and natural mana.
That man, Aidan Williamson, found a way to create a natural body, however that required a lot of effort and the results weren't fruitful either; albeit he was able to create a perfect body but he failed to bring it to life and Aidan was at a stump on what to do next.
Sowhere along his journey, Aidan found this tree, and an idea ca in his mind. He then connected a newly created body to this tree and, by so stroke of luck and nature, Alia was born.
However, despite looking human, Alia was much different from the others. Her hair and eyes changed colours according to the leaves of the tree and her age was… well, her body never aged, it remained frozen in ti. A normal 19 year old girl, who looked exactly like Aidan's daughter.
Her powers depended upon two factors: the trees' strength and ti. The more ti passed, the stronger she beca, though that was stunted when one day Lignum Vitae started dying and beca reduced to what it was today.
This secret was later revealed by Aidan himself, when he ca back as a monster and was searching for the remains of Alia. He told the secret to Lucas, who later told Elle about it, from whom I got to know the story.
Elle didn't know Alia that well, but Lucas kind of knew everything about her. Nobody knows how he ended up knowing so much, but it was probably related to the ti when the Vanguard was attacked by Lucas and Alia ca to stop him.
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Looking at touching the tree, Alia made a slightly horrified expression before I spoke,"Life Magic: Aura of Life."
The tree slowly started healing as its life signature beca better. It wasn't really much or perhaps too less to be accounted for, but it should extend her life by a few months at least.
"Looks like it did the trick,'' I thought as I observed Alia's shocked face and smiled before walking away from there,"I am going to stay in this Academy for quite so ti, so we will have enough ti to talk about it. See you later, Alia."
Alia just kept observing blankly before she spoke,"what exactly do you want here?"
At this I stopped and pondered a little before speaking,"I am going to collect so people and groom them. Hope you don't have any problem with that?"
She looked at with a slight complex gaze before speaking,"as long as it is all that you do."
I then chuckled a little before moving out of there under Alia's gaze. I moved outside, and reached back to where I ca from, this ti much faster as I was running and not simply walking.
Reaching back to the entrance test area, I saw my na on the top of the Unorthodox list and looking at the score; I doubt many people could beat to it. So that probably confirms my ticket into the Academy.
'The classes should start in about 3 days, so I have plenty of ti to check around the periter,' I thought as I observed everything around before I decided to check up on so people whom I already knew here.
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Arcadia Academy is a massive circular academy with many activities promoted all around its corners. Everything you can ask for is available here, given there are rules for everything. While the core of the Academy is allowed only for the students and selected staff mbers, the inner, middle and outer area is available for the public. Though you need to have so authority in order to enter the middle or the inner area.
For example, people who have a high position in the society can enter up to the inner area, while the guardians and parents can enter up to the middle area. As for the outer area, you need little authorization. As long as you are not a wanted criminal, you can freely enter or exit the outer area.
Currently, the entrance test was being conducted in the corners of the outer area, before further evaluations were to be made. While the Unorthodox mbers were tested only once, unless and until there was a tie, the Orthodox mbers were tested three tis in total and everyone from Eliza to Bernette was going to take the three tests before they could enter the Academy.
Describing the outer area would be exactly similar to describing a city made on a circular disk. On the inner side there is the middle area, on the outer side there is the outside world.
Within the disk, from the outside to inside, the mana density increases, and so does the power level of people who stay there as guards and security mbers, which also includes the staff mbers. A cleaner with not enough skills in its abilities will be placed more towards the outer circle than the one with skills.
Other than that, there is an increase in pricing of materials, hotel costs, entertainnt costs, etc as well when you venture deeper into the circle. As for any other disparity with the inner circles, the outer circle lacks regularity. It doesn't have a definite place where you can only stay, or where you can only train or only enjoy.
aning, you can find an entertainnt building 100 tres to your right and a training area to your left. There would also be an eatery, along with shopping complexes and car showrooms, and a weapon shop right at the corner. Though, this irregularity in the placent of shops, hotels, etc actually attracts people more to the outer area. Cause well, everything is available to you, no matter where you are staying.
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