Chapter 785: The Start of School, and the morial
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
"I rember you have said before that you’d do an investigation into the netherworld during the school holidays. How? How do you guys intend to start? Can you bring along too?"
Half a month away from the end of the holidays, Miles had run to face Benjamin and asked these questions out of the sudden.
Benjamin was stunned by it.
This...
Scratching the back of his head, he slowly rembered that indeed, there was such a thing.
According to his mory, it was an idea he had long before the attack by the Kingdom of Helius. At that ti, the academy’s research on the spirits of the dead had stagnated, and they needed fresh material, which was why he had made such a decision. However, after a series of battles, he had long forgotten about this matter. If it were not for the reminder today, he might even take quite a few months before he would rember such a thing.
However, now... Did not seem like a good ti.
The start of school ceremony was coming up, not to ntion the morial service they were preparing to hold on that sa day. At the sa ti, it seed that there were countless of visitors every day that demanded Benjamin’s attention, so it was very difficult for him to take himself out to investigate the netherworld.
And, truth be told, to expect a result from the exploration into the netherworld, it was possible that a lot of manpower and equipnt would be needed. But after the battles, Benjamin realized that his mind had beco more utilitarian.
He only wanted to grow the academy’s strength as soon as possible, and get rid of the pesky Church forever.
The retreat was only temporary, and with the Church’s past, after recovering for a few years, they might begin to stir up trouble again, and the world would be plunged into unrest once more. Who knew how many mages would lose their lives because of that, then... Benjamin still rembered the people of Icor during the ti of unrest, and the picture of how they had to move from their hos during the unrest and war.
The Church was like a thorn in the flesh. Benjamin only wanted to completely pull it out as fast as he could.
The exploration into the netherworld was, without a doubt, a very important matter, but unlike the research on runes and the building of an army, it could not produce a practical use within a short period of ti.
And before Benjamin’s eyes was a huge pile of way too many tasks...
"How? This plan... Are you ready to put it aside?" Miles could roughly tell from Benjamin’s face that he was in a difficult situation and was stuck for words for the mont, so he asked.
"That... Recently, there have been too many matters, I am really too busy," Benjamin replied helplessly.
"..."
Miles seed extrely disappointed.
Benjamin suddenly realized that the magic-immune physique and the netherworld seed to have so connections, which was why Miles had such a great interest. And since that was the case, the exploration into the netherworld must not necessarily be done by him personally, right?
"The matters to do with the academy right now are definitely aplenty, so I am unable to free myself from them. However, you can go yourself, yes?" After so deliberation, he opened his mouth to speak, "As long as you use the soundproof magical instrunts, anyone can pass through the deep abyss, and enter the netherworld. I can even pick out a few mages to go with you."
Miles was slightly stunned, but very soon, he nodded in agreent.
Benjamin let off a sigh of relief.
And so, as fast as he could, he chose a few dark mages and sent them out along with Miles from the Academy of Magic. Researchers needed the materials from the revenant, and the students with psychic powers also needed to capture huge amounts of spirits to turn into "undead minions" like the spirit bird. It was already quite a heavy burden, so to be able to toss it onto another person’s shoulders, Benjamin felt really happy.
He did not bother about the matter after that, and turned to get busy with the preparations for the new school term and the handling of various relations. Of course, the daily ditation howork was not forsaken, and after the consecutive battles, Grant’s power still gave him a huge motivation.
The situation with the "Light Slayers" was very difficult to reproduce, and it was impossible for him to develop the academy on a scale as large as the Church, and to use great numbers of people to gain an advantage over Grant in battles. Because of that, the growth of his own capabilities had beco a very important factor in the uprooting of the Church.
"The standard of my magical ability should be limitless, right?"
After finishing a round of ditation, Benjamin looked at the runes floating in the dark, and could not help but ask.
"On principle, it should be that way." A string of smiley faces jumped out and squished in next to Benjamin, with the System’s voice sounding out, "The important thing is to accumulate, as well as to make the right decisions during the quantitative change."
"...So your division would be limitless as well?"
"Of course."
Hearing this, Benjamin could not help but sigh, feeling slightly miserable.
No matter what, ditation would always be a howork he could not give up on. Now that his progress was as slow as a snail, he did not dare to delay anything by even half a minute.
Half a month later.
"Finally... We can finally co in here and learn magic."
The two great doors of the academy, under the attention of nurous pairs of eyes, slowly opened up.
There were crowds of people in Academy, and although they had expanded the area a few tis, it was still quite a squeeze. The opening of school this ti was much rrier than the last one.
A young face was being squished on the streets outside the academy. The new students stood on tiptoes, doing their best to look inside.
"So many people... I heard that during the war at Icor, a lot of students were killed, and my parents don’t want to study here. They say it’s dangerous."
"That’s because of the war. Don’t people say that the Academy of Magic is the greatest hero in driving off the Church?"
"Oh yes, I heard that not many of the students during the last term knew magic, but within a year, they could battle and kill enemies, and have gotten rid of many shamans..."
The senior students had already entered the academy earlier on to help with the preparations for the opening of the school term. anwhile, the new students and the other curious passersby were crowded at the doors, noisily engaging in their discussions.
There were too much that they had heard about the Academy of Magic. So were good, so were bad, and this had affected their determination. Except that, when they had really received the qualifications to enroll, not a single person chose to give it up.
"If you really want to believe those rumors about not being able to enter the Academy of Magic, then you must be crazy!" A young man spoke into his companion’s ears.
There was a risk in anything to be done, but in the hearts of the people in every nation, the Academy of Magic was slowly being associated with success. Even if you were a beggar on the streets, as long as you could get onto the enrolnt list, you would be able to soar into the skies and beco a strong mage. Such a story about the lower hierarchy of society fighting back had a sort of fatal attraction, no matter which era you were in.
However, when the great doors opened up, the people outside could not help but be stunned.
The decorations were extrely plain, there were uniform black clothing, white corsages on the chests... A mournful atmosphere seeped out gently from within the academy. The new students were sowhat confused, and the other who wanted to visit the academy today were also stunned for a few monts before they could respond.
This was a morial service.
"Co in." Without notice, Benjamin, dress in black, appeared in the sky above the great doors. His voice had been amplified and was steadily released towards the crowds, "No need to panic. Their sacrifices in the process of battling the Church have made them heroes. We only wish for them to be rembered."
The crowds suddenly grew quiet, and they looked before them, discovering suddenly that there was a stone tablet in the middle of the academy that looked quite new. The stone tablet was completely black and gigantic. Rows and rows of nas had been carved on it.
As though there was a quiet energy, the enthusiasm of the new students towards the idea of rising beyond the social structure was imdiately decreased. The impetuous ideas about making it big had, for so unknown reason, beco sowhat pale.
At that mont, they sensed that they had felt sothing, but what exactly it was, they were not too sure.
However, they were beginning to understand that the Academy of Magic, talked about in such enthusiasm and heat outside, seed to be very...
Different.
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