400: Chapter 400 Magic Academy and Dark Magician

The year 150 of the Qiming Era.

This year, 110 years had passed since Losoqi entered the Magic Academy in the year 0040 and became the Dean in 0100. He was now a full 120 years old and very frail.

Although the Magic Academy's God-given Magic Spring contained water that could extend one's lifespan, it could only allow a person to live to a maximum of 150 years, and only the first sip was effective.

Over these years, Losoqi had worked tirelessly for the Magic Academy, constantly purging the dark magicians brought by Carter, which had caused significant damage to his health.

On this day, he could no longer hold on. Although he could have lived for another ten years, he used his lifelong magic power, centering on his own soul and magic source, combined with the light and holy magic he had comprehended throughout his life, to refine himself into a Holy Stone, continuing to protect the Magic Academy.

The second Dean of the Magic Academy was 62-year-old Longkodo, who also possessed a once-in-a-century level nine magic source.

Level nine was a new rating for magic sources that had evolved within the Magic Academy over the past century; level nine was a magic source that reached the early stage of a High-level Magician, while the eight levels below it corresponded exactly to the early, middle, late, and peak stages of Junior and Intermediate levels.

As for nine stars, that represented the level of combat power.

A magician's innate limit was predetermined, which reduced a lot of unnecessary conflict; after all, from the moment they became magicians, they only needed to continuously control their own magic source through meditation.

The remaining decades of their time could be used to study magic, magic potions, magic artifacts, and so on.

Tang Ping stood at the top of the Magic Academy's main castle, looking down at the now vibrant Magic Academy. Students from the first to the fourth graduating classes moved about the academy, using all kinds of magical spells.

Because the magic source had no attributes, all kinds of magic could be learned.

Cleaning spells, flight spells, transformation spells, fireball spells, water ball spells, flying thunder spells, levitation spells, and so on—the types of magic were extremely numerous, and many magical geniuses had emerged over the past century, creating many new spells.

Nowadays, magic was divided into life magic, seven-element magic, life-force magic, soul magic, summoning magic, and so on. With various courses offered, students could freely choose to attend these classes to learn.

Besides this, behind the academy lay a vast expanse of over a hundred thousand square kilometers, featuring the Magic Forest, Miracle Snowfield, Magical Mountains, Dreamy Lakes, Limeng Gobi, and other places, where many magical creatures evolved from magical beasts lived, waiting for magicians to explore.

However, most of the magical creatures living here were very peaceful, friendly toward humans, and possessed extraordinary intelligence.

But on the much larger continent, there were also other magical creatures living there. Some of these creatures were extremely brutal, while others were hostile to humans, making them very dangerous for inexperienced magicians.

For example, in the east of the continent was the Mist Forest, in the west were the Terra Mountains, in the north was the land of Extreme Ice, and in the south was the Dark Chaos Swamp, all of which were inhabited by a significant number of magical creatures.

It was said that the dark magicians lived in the Dark Chaos Swamp.

The second Dean, Longkodo, was a very talented Life Archmage who had even unprecedentedly created nature magic.

Because of the deterrence and tireless purging of dark magicians by the previous Dean, the period during which Longkodo served as Dean was very stable and peaceful.

Therefore, he had more time to research his nature magic.

In the year 231 of the Qiming Era, Longkodo was 143 years old and nearing the end of his life. He had found an ancient seed of the Tree of Life. This seed had long since withered and had no vitality, but Dean Longkodo, relying on his highly accomplished nature magic, spent decades finally awakening it.

At the final moment of his life, he transformed everything he was into nourishment for this Tree of Life seed. Overnight.

The Tree of Life grew from a seed into a towering tree a hundred meters tall, and the power of life rippled through the Magic Academy, cleansing the body of every magician.

The third Dean, Keilagu, was a kind old lady who became the third-generation Dean at the age of 58.

But during her tenure as Dean, the continent was no longer peaceful.

The Hundred Kingdoms, which had been stable for two hundred years, erupted into a war that swept across all nations!

Countless people were displaced in this war, corpses floated down rivers, and blood dyed one river after another red.

It was during this era of conflict among nations that the long-silent dark magicians once again stepped onto the stage of history, revealing their brutality.

Bloody dark magic, necromancy, soul magic, and sacrificial magic were used by them against the weak humans, frantically stripping away the fragile lives of those ordinary people.

Keilagu led the teachers and students of the Magic Academy to begin resisting these evil dark magicians, and the two sides clashed once again after a hundred years.

And this generation of the Magic Academy had more than just Keilagu as a nine-star Archmage; there was another nine-star Archmage who was only eight years older than her. If it hadn't been for the fact that this Archmage was obsessed with potion-making and had no intention of serving as Dean, perhaps she would have been the one to serve as the Dean of the Magic Academy at that time.

This was the nine-star Grand Potion Master, Cimei.

Sora Kingdom, Colossus Town.

The town was named after a huge stone statue. This statue looked very similar to a human and stood on the hillside south of the town, like a giant gazing at the starry sky.

At this moment, a team that had been ordered to come and purge the dark magicians was resting in a bar in this town.

Five third-year magicians, who had just emerged from the fireplace, were tracking the traces of the dark magicians under the leadership of their mentor, Keike.

"Teacher, do you know where that dark magician is?" the red-haired boy asked. He was eager to try his hand at this outing and was even prepared to show off his skills. As someone whose magic source was rated as level seven and who was now a four-star magician, he was ready to put on a good performance.

"Don't be careless. This dark magician is at least five-star. The magic attacks cultivated by dark magicians are strange, and their methods are vicious. Even if they are several levels lower than you, you must treat them with caution."

Keike's expression was serious. Although he was a seven-star magic mentor, he still had to be cautious when facing these dark magicians.

"Isn't it just a five-star? There's no need for the mentor to take action; the five of us can beat the opponent to a pulp!" the brown-haired fat boy promised, patting his chest. Although his magic source was a bit worse, only level six quality, his strength had also reached four stars, and he was proficient in transformation magic, able to turn into a powerful Thunder Beast!

The blonde girl said in a cold voice, "We should listen more to the mentor's advice. Those dark magicians love to use strange soul magic. Almost every one of them cultivates the three major soul spells: Soul Devouring Curse, Soul Splitting Curse, and Soul Bewitching Curse. Once hit by the Soul Bewitching Curse, and the other two soul curses are released, even if you are two star-levels higher, you could still die!"

Keike nodded with satisfaction. "It seems Annie has made full preparations. However, rest assured, we have brought soul magic artifacts this time. Our academy's students are no worse than anyone else."

He waved his magic wand, and a summoning magic circle appeared on the table.

Soon, a few plump winged insects flew out from it.

Keike fed the winged insects a few magic cubes, then took out a piece of torn cloth. The winged insects sniffed it and immediately flew outside.

"Let's go, let's follow them."

The mentor and the five third-year students all used light invisibility magic to conceal themselves.