Chapter 425: THE SCHOOL
Everyone was stunned as they looked at the Plaque.
Sam didn't look back and continued saying.
"For all the orphans that are present here. All these years, you didn't have a home to stay, food to eat and enough to support to survive in a dignified manner.
But from today onwards THE SCHOOL is your home. Here no one will look down on you for your lack of parents, no one will look down on your loneliness and from now on, no one will be able to tell you that you are the orphans.
You will be given clothing, food and place to stay and live here. But those who hasn't awakened yet, has to go to the general class which will give you guys enough theoretical knowledge of all the elements, battles, skills, professions, beasts and many other things.
You guys will have to attend all the classes whether you like it or not and you guys will have to study. I am not going to feed you for nothing. I am not that selfless; you have to study and prove your worth to be fed and show me that you deserve to helped.
You will be taught about all the possible options that you might have in your cultivation path and will be given demonstrations on how things will be. So, you have to learn about these things so that you guys can have more choices in your future.
Apart from that, you will trained on many other basic skills, like scouting, military tactics, group battles, team leading and many others.
You shall learn these things and make sure that you are not as useless as the world proclaimed you to be.
And for the rest of the western continent, I hereby welcome all the people below age twenty who are still in their early stages of cultivation, to get a chance to join the school.
You along with all the orphans who are already awakened can attend the classes that are available in the School.
There will be hundreds of classes conducted everyday within the school. There will be combat specializations, some professional specified courses, some auxiliary courses.
And we don't just welcome people who want to be a great fighter. I personally believe, no matter what profession it is, it has a value in this world. Every profession is equally important.
So, if you want pursue your passion you can come here.
Even all you want to become is a chef, a person who wants to explore the flora of this world, a person who just wants to study the fauna of this planet, a person who just wants to become a cleaner, a person who wants to become a masseuse. A person who just wants to manage an enterprise. A person who wants to become a mercenary, a person who wants to grow plants. A carpenter who only wants to make furniture. No matter what it is.
As long as you have passion and are willing to learn for it, work hard for it, you can come to school and you can pick the classes which you think will be useful for your passion and if you couldn't decide or didn't know find the teachers, and if they don't know you can find me.
We will help you achieve that.
But there is one thing all of you must remember and this includes all the people who are appointed as teachers too. This place is only a place of education and there is no tolerance towards any form of faction struggles and trying to breed your own forces. If two students of the school wants to fight, then they have to fight in the school arena or any other arena within Sam's city.
The rest of the rules and procedures will be announced later.
Now coming to the employees of the organization.
Those who are older than twenty, no matter what cultivation level you are at, will be given a chance to enter the school and go through the library we have arranged here to improve yourself.
That will be given to you based on your performance in your role. At the same time, the time you can stay in the school also depends on the performance.
In that time period, not only will you get the chance to enter the library, you would also get the chance to attend the lectures or consult a teacher.
And mark my words, every teacher is responsible for answering and teaching the students without bias. In this school only I am the person who is allowed to show bias and favoritism and that depends on the people's abilities.
As for the rest of you, particularly teacher, should I hear a single word about you being biased and find conclusive proof, then you are dead meat.
As for maintaining your favorite student and such, that is your wish, but once a student comes and asks you a question you have no right to brush him off or act prejudiced against and any student who was subjected to that treatment, can report to me or the three that are standing behind me directly without any hesitance.
Of course, this rule is not valid for the guest lecturers.
As for the new recruits that are recently become a part of the organization, Nascent stage cultivators below forty, Grand realm cultivators below thirty-five and Great realm cultivators below thirty shall become the students of the academy.
They will be given special guidance by the seniors and if the nascent stage cultivators find that they don't have any suitable teachers, they can learn themselves from the library.
The School will be arranging the combat missions in form of internships in different times and this applies to all the students who are pursuing their professions as well.
At the end of the day, strength take precedence to everything.
Now coming to all the distinguished guests.
You are all people of high stature and of noble birth. I invited you all today not only to make announce the opening of The school, but also to say something outright.
I see the teaching as the most noble profession in the world. Even nobler than a fighter, soldier, a healer and everything. There is a saying once heard that says "Mother, Father, teacher and then God" I take this very seriously.
So, for such a noble profession, I don't want to show any bias. You can send the kids from your clans to the school if you want to and once their studies are completed, they can return to your clans, I will not force them to work for me or leave the clan.
But there is one thing I am going to say. If you send people inside the school to try and recruit talents, form factions, create rifts, form alliances and any other political bullshit, then I will exterminate the entire clan for the next nine generations. I wouldn't let a single survivor alive.
Any kid that comes from the noble family, even if he is the son of the Emperor Arc himself, shall follow by the rules and will be treated only as students. He will be treated the same, taught the same and if necessary punished the same.
All their identities only matters outside of the school walls and once they are inside, they are just students.
For me, this place is a sacred place.
If anyone of you is responsible for sullying it, you shall see the devil in me. And trust me no one knows about that character as anyone who saw that never lived past to tell the tale."
As Sam spoke to this point, many auras raged and the dukes, ministers, nobles all stood up from their seats, they all looked at Sam coldly and an old man who is the minister of Arian said.
"Sam, you are a young talent which the emperor admired and gave you this city as a reward for contribution in the war.
You are proven to be a great business man and has amassed great wealth and you have proven your character by establishing a great place such as School, but the way you talked to the nobles is out of line.
Particularly, naming his majesty himself and threatening the nobles with the extermination is a sin that wouldn't be overlooked easily, you better apologize."
Sam didn't speak to him and looked at Arc and said.
"Emperor of Arian, I have proclaimed that even if your son enters the school he shall be treated as the same as the other students, is there anything wrong about what I said? Do I or do I not have enough authority to set rules in my own institution?"
"You have every authority." Arc replied surprising everyone else.
"The city that I am living in, is it something that was rewarded by you?" Sam asked loudly without any hesitation in his voice."
"No, it is a business deal."
"Tell your subordinates to be in check, with all due respect to you as an emperor, I don't get this city or anything else by anyone's appreciation and admiration. I have obtained them all by conducting business and even this city is part of a business deal.
I don't want to hear these voices ever again. I have respect for you as a competent emperor, but that doesn't mean I will bow down for whatever your subordinates say.
In the deal we made, we acted as equals and in the deals we will make in the future we will be acting as equals.
Thank you everyone for coming. The ceremony concludes."
Sam turned around and walked away.