Chapter 689 - 587: The Academy’s Peculiarities and Genius (2)
Chapter 689: Chapter 587: The Academy’s Peculiarities and Genius (2)
In the distant corridor, in the shadows under the column, there was something.
Someone was watching him.
Jeming kept walking, made a brisk turn, and headed straight in that direction.
The shadow was silent for a moment, then a figure stepped out.
It was a woman.
Black long hair, black wizard robe, she looked like a walking shadow.
Her features were delicate, but her eyes carried a bizarre depth, as if they could see through someone’s heart.
At the instant Jeming saw her, the corner of his mouth slightly lifted.
"Oh, it’s you, Seraphina. It’s been a while."
Turns out, it was someone he knew.
Back then, when he graduated from Nolun Academy and participated in elite trials, he encountered other geniuses with Tenth Level Talent from Nolun Academy.
She was proficient in dark magic, illusion technique, and stealth, skilled in spiritual penetration and precise assassination.
After more than ten years, her aura was even deeper, she must also be Fifth Level.
Seraphina looked at him, her deep eyes full of a gaze like she was looking at a monster.
"Jeming."
Her voice was somewhat dry, "I used the stealth skill taught personally by the instructor to hide just now. Even a Sixth Level Wizard shouldn’t be able to discover me."
Jeming nodded: "Oh."
"Oh?" Seraphina’s eyes twitched, "That’s all you have to say, just ’Oh’?"
Jeming thought for a moment, raised his hands to give her a light applause: "Well... you’re awesome, so impressive?"
Seraphina took a deep breath to calm herself.
"Forget it, I won’t argue with you." She sized up Jeming, "Your prowess... has risen significantly again? I feel like you’ve become more dangerous than before."
Jeming modestly replied: "Not bad, made some progress."
Seraphina rolled her eyes.
Jeming didn’t continue this topic, and directly asked: "Why are you here? And what’s going on at the academy? Why are there so many Fifth Level Wizards?"
Seraphina’s expression became somewhat subtle.
"The reason I’m here is probably the same as yours, nothing much to do recently, just came to lend a hand." She paused, "As for those Fifth Level Wizards... I did hear some news, but it doesn’t seem to account for the current situation."
"What news?"
Seraphina: "The graduation plane used this time by the graduates was provided by a specially appointed instructor in the academy."
Jeming paused for a moment, then realized.
After completing ten years of study, Wizard Apprentices are forced to participate in their first plane war at graduation.
The selected planes come from various sources, but most are discovered by instructors within the academy.
Normally, High Tier Wizards who want to initiate a plane war need to hire an army themselves using military merits.
Although not hiring elite combat units would consume less, the costs are astronomical.
Collaborating with the academy is different.
The cost of hiring wizard military merits can be significantly reduced.
Though most who come are apprentices, most of these apprentices will rapidly advance to Official Wizards during combat.
Just hiring a few mid-level and high-level combat powers, you can capture a plane at low cost.
For High Tier Wizards, it’s quite a profitable deal.
However, Nolun No. 147 Academy was established too recently, and the number of Wizards above Sixth Level is not enough, thus discovered planes naturally can’t compare with other academies.
Many times, they had to use graduation planes from other academies.
Therefore, someone offering their own plane is indeed special news for the academy.
But as Seraphina said, simply because of this, it shouldn’t result in so many Fifth Level Wizards coming to serve as instructors, right?
The current situation is that the original batch of wizard instructors at the academy disappeared somewhere, hence they were entrusted by Dean Avery Knight for teaching tasks.
Even if this graduation plane is rather special, it shouldn’t be necessary for so many instructors to follow along.
Jeming looked at Seraphina.
Seraphina shrugged: "That’s all I know. If you want more details, you should ask the dean yourself."
Jeming nodded and continued forward: "Alright, we’ll talk later, I’ll go report first."
He walked a few steps, looked back at the shadow under that column.
There was nothing there.
But he knew that Seraphina hid again.
This woman’s habit, hasn’t changed a bit.
...
...
Months flew by.
Jeming’s life became particularly regular: visit Nolun No.147 Academy every ten days, teach half a day, then continue his research back home.
This teaching task was exactly as Dean Avery Knight had mentioned initially, indeed wasn’t much trouble.
He’s now at a rather special time point, as the old batch of students just graduated and went for plane wars.
The new batch of students hasn’t been recruited yet.
Those remaining in the academy are those who’ve already studied for five years, currently in the critical enhancement period.
These people have solid foundations, clear needs, no need for special attention.
From Jeming’s experience as a Wizard Apprentice back then, if not for showing respect for Official Wizards, these students would prefer to study on their own and don’t really care about teaching.
Hence, Jeming just needed to follow the teaching plans, explaining some basics and advanced techniques of Alchemy each time he came.
At most leave a little time at the end of the class to answer a few questions from wizard apprentices.
Very easy.
Regarding the issue of having a large number of Fifth Level Wizards in the academy, Jeming also queried Dean Avery Knight via Magic Network Terminal.
But the other side seemed constantly busy with something, his messages sent were like stones dropped into the sea, with no reply ever.