The main school building of Dawn Academy was right in front of them. It was shaped like a large bird with its wings spread wide. The two long wings were like a pair of giant wings that seemed to wrap around the small square. The main building had five floors, and was used for the offices of various subjects. The wings on both sides had four floors, and had a total of eighty classrooms. It could accommodate up to four thousand students at a time.
To the left of the small square was a white stone building. It was originally a city defense sentry post, but now it was the base of the academy's law enforcement and management department. To the right was a sparse woodland. This was a treasure land for morning exercises, and also a romantic place for couples to confess their love when the two moons were high in the sky.
In order to find Dean Levins, Lollister had to pass through the great hall of the main school building, detour around the large drill grounds and cafeteria, pass through the Apothecary's herb garden, research building, and library before arriving at the administrative office of an abandoned monastery. The Dean's office was located in that tall tower.
As a comprehensive academy with a history of 153 years, Dawn Academy did not have a strong faculty in the areas of combat aura and swordsmanship. The academies ranked ahead of it all had at least one master swordsman in charge.
Dawn Academy was most famous for its accounting, archeology, language, alchemy, and knowledge of magical beasts. Apart from that, the new art of painting and music also became famous far and wide.
In order to nurture talents with knowledge and temperament, Dawn Academy had always required its students to master fighting energy and swordsmanship. They had to study two professions systematically, as well as understand an art before they could graduate. The academy did not care when students could meet the graduation requirements. As long as they were willing to pay the fees, it was fine even if they studied for eight to ten years.
Dawn Academy also had dozens of other professions, such as architecture, sculpture, city administration, business management, knight training, horsemanship, shipbuilding, blacksmithing, leather tanning, and so on. They could be taught as long as students signed up. There were even elegant flower appreciation classes and gourmet tasting classes for the children of nobles.
Although these professions were not Dawn Academy's strong suit, the professors in these professions were still very skilled. Even if these specialized courses taught very general and basic knowledge, it was impossible for students to think that they could graduate as long as they learned the basics and knew how to operate a simple machine. If you don't put in some effort and study hard, you won't be able to get the certification of your professional discipline, and it will be very difficult for you to graduate.
Laurist's two specializations were accounting and knight training. His uncle, the chief steward of the family caravan who had sent him to Dawn Academy ten years ago, had chosen both of them. His uncle believed that the advantage of learning accounting was that even if Locke Jr. wasn't the heir to the family in the future, he could still take over the family caravan with his proficiency in accounting. That way, he would have a successor.
As for the training of knights, that was because the Norton family was a hereditary noble family with military achievements. Moreover, Locke had shown extraordinary talent in martial arts since he was a child. He had already awakened impetus at the age of fourteen. If it wasn't because of his narrow-mindedness and jealousy, his father wouldn't have banished him to Moront City to study.
Leaving home meant that he wouldn't be able to receive the traditional knight training of the family. At that time, Laurist's uncle felt that he couldn't let Locke Jr. miss out on this aspect of education, so he chose this professional knight training.
What Laurist's uncle didn't expect was that after being separated from Locke Jr. for less than a month, his beloved nephew got into a conflict with other students because of his arrogant attitude and disdainful gaze. He was seriously injured and lying on the bed, until a soul from another world took over his body.
As a result, accounting, which was originally regarded as extremely difficult, only took a year to easily earn enough credits to pass the stage. This was because in Laurist's eyes, accounting was just a very shallow calculation method. It was equivalent to elementary school mathematics in his previous life. It was very simple.
On the contrary, the knight training made Laurist suffer a lot. If it wasn't for the good foundation of this body, the three years of knight training would have been very difficult to endure. Starting from learning to be a Knight Squire, a lot of trivial matters took up most of his time every day. He also had to take care of his armor and take care of his horses. Apart from that, he also had to complete his own physical training and knight skills training. It wasn't easy for him to endure for three years and pass the certification.
Unlike other students who became quasi-knights after completing their training, Laurist could only become an apprentice knight. The reason was because of impetus. At Iron-rank, one could only become an apprentice knight, and only after advancing to Silver-rank could one become a quasi-knight.
Speaking of which, it was all because of this body's high-rank inferno impetus that was passed down in his family. After inheriting his memories, he discovered that the original owner of this body, Norton Laurist, nicknamed Locke Jr., had a handwritten inferno impetus manual. However, the manual only allowed one to cultivate up to 3-Star Iron-rank, and did not contain the cultivation methods for Silver and Gold ranks. However, this body had just awakened its impetus at that time, and its strength was only 1-Star Bronze. It would still take a few years for it to reach 3-Star Iron-rank, so it wasn't a rush.
Impetus cultivation was very different from the Qigong cultivation in his previous life. The Goldwater Method in his previous life was something his grandfather had forced him to cultivate when he was seven or eight years old to lay the foundation. On the other hand, impetus cultivation was the bloodline. Usually, one would only start to awaken their impetus at the age of fifteen or sixteen. If one was too young and did not develop well, they would not be able to sense the monster genes in their blood.
Legend had it that thousands of years ago, it was a world of magic. Powerful Magicians ruled the world, and they called Galinthea the Main Plane. They then flew to the stars in search of the Secondary Plane. In their countless expeditions to the planes, the mages discovered an awkward problem. They, who were used to being alone and unrestrained, lacked reliable close-range defense and armed forces to suppress the natives of the Subplane World. Thus, the mages returned to Galinthea to think of a solution to this problem.
At first, the solution that the Magicians thought of was to tame the monsters, but they soon realized that this was not a good choice. The monsters' intelligence made it difficult for them to understand the intentions of the Magicians. Letting the monsters solve the problem would only result in a bloody mess and chaos.
At this time, a genius Magician was inspired by the Beastmen's innate talent for violence. He injected the blood of some powerful monsters into the blood of humans who could not cultivate magic, and fused them. Then, he used a magic formation to stimulate it, and impetus appeared.
The emergence of impetus changed the human world. With the cultivation method of impetus, humans who had no talent for magic and were seen as burdens could face the ferocious monsters alone without the protection of Magicians and obtain victory. This reduced the responsibilities of the Magicians, giving them more time to research the things they were interested in. It also gave the Magicians a reliable guard force.
Next, the blood of various monsters was injected into the bodies of humans, and impetus of various attributes and characteristics appeared in the human world. At that time, the stimulation and cultivation of impetus were carried out in magic formations. The Magicians drew up a division of strength for the various tiers of impetus. With the research and help of the Magicians, various magic formations that could speed up the cultivation of impetus allowed the people who cultivated in impetus to advance at a rapid pace. For a time, Sword Gods were everywhere, and Sword Saints were like dogs.
That was the most glorious and glorious period of the human race for a thousand years. Countless resources and treasures from different planes were continuously transported back to Galinthea. At that time, the Elves played music and sang for the humans, the Halflings cooked for the humans, the Dwarves built palaces for the humans, the Dragons became the humans' mounts, the Taurens farmed for the humans, the Beastmen herded for the humans, and all other races prostrated at the feet of the humans.
All the good things ended at that moment. That was both the beginning and the end. Some magicians who were exploring the Dimensional Planes in the Void discovered an abandoned Divine Kingdom Plane. Only then did the Magicians realize that the resources of countless Divine Kingdom Planes combined were not as abundant as the resources of an abandoned Divine Kingdom Plane. There were more advanced magic materials, the purest mineral resources, and the legendary mystery of immortality.
All the Magicians turned their attention to the Divine Kingdom Plane. They formed the most powerful Magician group, organized the mighty Sword God Army, and attacked the Divine Kingdom Plane.
The Magicians and the Gods went to war. This war lasted for a thousand years. Countless Divine Kingdoms were annihilated, and the blood of countless Magicians, Sword Gods, and Sword Saints stained the battlefield. There was no victor in this tragic war. There were only two losers who perished together. Just like the Fall of the Gods, blood and fire dyed the sky red, and stars fell like meteors. The greed of humans caused great changes in the world, and darkness ruled the entire world …
In fact, the true great changes in the world were the gradual disappearance of the magic elements that were originally everywhere. The powerful Magicians were losing their source of power. No one could explain it, and no one understood what was going on. They only knew that the End of Days was coming.
When the Magicians lost their last bit of power, the suppressed Sword Gods and Sword Saints thought that their time had come. The future of Galintea should be a world of Dou Qi. For the sake of ambition, they began to fight against each other. Without the restraints of the Magicians, they killed, plundered, and destroyed without restraint. They hated the Magicians who had ruled them, and all the glorious buildings built during the Magic Civilization became the target of their anger. They destroyed, set fire, and turned everything into ruins before they were satisfied.
They established their own kingdoms and territories, and lived high up in the world, enjoying the respect of the human world. But they forgot that without the help of Magicians and magic arrays, they did not have the qualifications to have all of this. So, when they grew old and neared death, they found that their descendants did not have the ability to inherit their legacy, because they could not stimulate the hidden power in their descendants' bloodline to cultivate Dou Qi. Their descendants were still ordinary humans.
When the last Sword Saint breathed his last, the darkest millennium in Galintea's human history came. Humans who had lost their ultimate power could not resist the ferocious magical beasts, and could only become fresh delicacies in the mouths of the magical beasts. They could only hide here and there, dragging out their feeble existence.
Legend has it that in that dark millennium, the human population was reduced by two-thirds.
A human warrior encountered a ferocious magical beast while hunting, and at the juncture of life and death, he suddenly stimulated the hidden power in his bloodline and awakened Dou Qi. With this newly awakened Dou Qi, he killed the magical beast. The most fortunate thing was that his tribe still had the inheritance of the Dou Qi cultivation secrets left by their ancestors.
No matter how long the night was, the dawn would eventually come. The awakening of the warrior's Dou Qi was like a ray of light, bringing new hope to the humans of Galintea. The surviving humans gathered together and collected all the Dou Qi cultivation secrets they could find, and began to study the method to awaken Dou Qi.
In the long days of life and death battles with magical beasts, humans slowly understood Dou Qi, and began to master the enlightenment and awakening of Dou Qi. There were no Magicians or magic arrays to help humans learn Dou Qi, and even the Dou Qi cultivation secrets left by their ancestors were mostly useless. Humans could only learn and use it in battle, and learn from their failures. On the path of studying Dou Qi, humans fumbled forward, step by step, but they walked with exceptional solidity.
More than a millennium passed, and humans once again became the masters of the Galintea continent. Dou Qi was no longer mysterious, but had become common knowledge. Stimulating the hidden magical beast genes in their bloodline, awakening Dou Qi, and constantly training and advancing, making themselves stronger to achieve victory. The ferocious magical beasts were no longer a threat to humans, but instead became their hunting targets.
Without external threats, the originally united humans once again split up, and for the sake of tribes, beliefs, and benefits, they began to fight endlessly. The flames of war spread for hundreds of years, and finally formed the current situation of the Galintea continent.
Historians believed that the coming of the End of Days marked the loss of the foundation for the revival of the great magic civilization of the past. The magical elements did not disappear, but were replaced by another kind of World Essence. And this World Essence could resonate with the magical beast genes passed down from the ancestors in the human bloodline, and thus awaken Dou Qi.
The more the ancestors of a family had a Sword God or Sword Saint, the easier it was for their descendants to awaken Dou Qi. This was because their ancestors had fused with the blood of powerful magical beasts. Even after thousands of years, the hidden magical beast genes in their blood were still the key to their descendants awakening Dou Qi more easily than others.
Thus, many nobles began to pay attention to the inheritance of the family bloodline, and in order to ensure the purity of the bloodline, they even forced their children to marry.
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