398: Chapter 398 The 100th Year of the Enlightenment Era

Tata Kingdom

Speaking of which, this country and Tang Ping have a deep connection. This is because back then, Kane, the third Pope of the Holy See, came from Tata Village. Later, after he became the Pope, Tata Village became a city called Tata City.

With the arrival of the Radiant Era, it became the Tata Duchy, and now it is the Tata Kingdom.

Among the hundred kingdoms, many are intricately linked to the seven major kingdoms and numerous duchies from three hundred years ago. Countries established by true commoners are very few.

Coming here now was naturally to search for magic seeds with innate Magic Sources.

With two gods present, a single thought allowed them to sense the child with the most powerful Magic Source today.

This child was their goal. Of course, to preserve the inheritance of magicians, relying on one person alone was definitely not enough. So on this trip, all children with Magic Sources between the ages of eight and twelve would be taken to the Magic Academy.

"The village ahead is the one where that child lives."

As long as this most talented child didn't grow up poorly, there was a high probability he would succeed Angie as the second dean of the Magic Academy.

The three hundred years of warfare had finally reached a brief period of peace. But this peace was only temporary. The hundred-plus countries all needed to recuperate. Once they had recuperated, one could imagine how chaotic this continent would become.

The wooden cabin ahead was a mess. A thin boy was chopping wood in the yard. It was clear that the boy was suffering from long-term malnutrition.

Angie sighed upon seeing the child. She was no longer as naive as she had been at the beginning. As the longest-living existence in the world besides the gods, her gaze had long since extended from individual lives to the world as a whole.

From the Lord and Sophia, she knew there were countless worlds outside. She didn't know how many worlds in the starry sky were more powerful than the Skotos Magic World. She had once visited Sophia's Lunar Divine Kingdom and seen powerful Ancient Starry Beasts roaming. If not for the Lord's presence, the world might have been overturned once again.

This world needed more powerhouses capable of rivaling those Ancient Starry Beasts.

It also needed more divine kingdoms to stand guard outside the starry sky.

The boy immediately became alert when he saw strangers entering his home, gripping the axe in his hand. In this era, incidents of soldiers, bandits, and refugees entering villages to loot and pillage happened frequently.

"Who are you? What are you doing at my house!"

The three people before him looked extremely elegantly dressed. The young man in the middle wore a plain white robe, the woman on the left wore moon-white silver attire, and the woman on the right wore a black-and-gold patterned magic robe. No matter who it was, their clothes were better than those of the lords he had seen in town. They certainly weren't soldiers, bandits, or refugees, so what were they doing here?

Losoqi was nervous, as if only the axe in his hand could provide him a shred of security.

"Your name is Losoqi, right?"

Angie stepped forward with a gentle smile.

"Child, we mean no harm. We've come to invite you to our academy."

"Academy?" Losoqi's eyes lit up, but then quickly dimmed. How could he be recruited by any academy? Those in academies were all nobles, while he was just a commoner. "I don't want to go. I just want to stay home."

Clearly, Losoqi took these people for swindlers.

"Haha, kid, whether you want to go or not, come with us first. If you really don't want to stay, we won't stop you from coming back." Tang Ping waved his hand. Using the magic of this world, he transported them to the Magic Academy standing on a remote island overseas.

The island was vast, covering over a hundred thousand square kilometers. However, the Magic Academy was perched on a high sea cliff. The sky was covered by a massive magic circle, making the entire island invisible from the outside. The sky here was shrouded in a dull gray, with various brilliant, swirling neon lights faintly interspersed.

The sea was also a dark, somber color, but it seemed to contain many magical creatures.

The main body of the castle, hundreds of meters tall, stood on the sea cliff. On the reefs below, there were various strange buildings of all sizes, and there were even many palaces floating above the reefs.

This was the academy that Sophia had spent a full century building, incorporating Tang Ping's suggestions with the architectural style of this world.

And Angie had already begun organizing the teaching materials for the Magic Academy three hundred years ago, while also collecting various books: humanities, history, geography, biographies, local customs, and strange treasures and exotic beasts—everything was there.

Of course, the most important were the magic books, reorganized by Angie to be suitable for magicians with Magic Sources to practice.

These magicians didn't need to rely on meditation to raise their realm, because the size of their Magic Source was determined at birth. What they needed was simply control.

Losoqi stood dazed, speechless with shock at the sight before him.

"Welcome to the Skotos Magic Academy."

"Losoqi."

The first enrollment of the Magic Academy thus began, with a total of 372 new magic students admitted.

To handle the teaching, Tang Ping had trained a group of teachers over the past three hundred years. Even Sophia, the Moon Goddess, was brought in to serve as the guardian of the Magic Book Tower.

The purpose of the Magic Academy was to pass down magic. Magicians possessed power that ordinary people in the outside world could not rival. To prevent the world from falling into chaos because of magicians, the Magic Academy had established a series of strict rules and regulations.

No showing off power in front of ordinary people, no interfering in kingdom affairs, no harming ordinary people—all of these were included.

The so-called Godfall had long become a legend. Three hundred years of history were enough to make people forget too much. Nowadays, ordinary people preferred to call it the Qiming Era.

Qiming was the era name set for this new age by a Great Sage who had single-handedly brought an end to the chaos of the hundred kingdoms and ushered in a period of peace.

In the year 40 of the Qiming Era, the first batch of new students officially entered the Magic Academy.

Everything was on the right track.

In the year 60 of the Qiming Era, the 31-year-old Losoqi, with his extraordinary talent, had completely mastered his Magic Source and possessed power comparable to the early stage of a High-level Magician.

Because Magic Sources had no attributes, any magic could be practiced. However, Losoqi was most proficient in Light Magic.

Twenty years had passed. With enrollments every four years, five batches had been recruited, and the first class had already graduated.

Some stayed at the Magic Academy, while others ventured across the continent, leaving behind various mysteries that baffled ordinary people.

Of course, controlling power naturally makes it easy to lose oneself. Eventually, a magician couldn't restrain his inner impulses and killed an ordinary person.

Harsh punishments followed: the Ice Purgatory, the Lava Purgatory, and the Abyss Purgatory. These terrifying punishments struck fear into the hearts of the magicians, making everyone more low-key and afraid to show their power before ordinary people.

But there were always some magicians who were unwilling to be restrained.

In the year 100 of the Qiming Era, the Magic Academy had been open for sixty years. Fifteen batches of students had been recruited, and the number of existing magicians had reached 5,130.

The very first batch of magicians had entered their old age, and the fear of death gradually loomed over their heads.

No one was willing to give up this supreme power.

In a dark room somewhere, a group of old magicians in black magic robes were researching something.