The Academy That Vanished

Looking back at the path he had come from, Gu Xi discovered that the path that had disappeared earlier had now reopened, and from where Gu Xi stood, he could see the large lake beyond the mountains.

He could even see the white smoke billowing from the locomotive.

But Gu Xi now has no such thoughts as he did in the past.

He realized that he was now being given a choice between two options.

The entrance ceremony for the Mysterious Academy had already begun the moment he appeared in the Princess's Forest.

There may be other options among these mountains and lakes, but when two different options are presented, Gu Xi will be left to make his own judgment.

Gu Xi's every move will affect what he learns in this Mysterious Academy.

Gu Xi had no idea that entering the Mysterious Academy would involve such troublesome matters.

He instinctively glanced back and then planted the Cold Wind Staff in Burial Ground.

Then Gu Xi freed his hands and pressed them down on the Burial Ground, and a Soul Shard flew into the Burial Ground.

Then the Burial Ground began to shake incessantly, as if the entire mountain was about to explode.

However, Gu Xi ignored all of this. At this moment, he felt that his Summoning seemed to have become much stronger, and the range of soul summoning had expanded to the entire nearby mountain.

Just then, a skeletal arm Mido emerged from the ground; this arm was nothing more than a normal forearm.

As it emerged from the ground, the arm flipped downwards and pushed forcefully, causing a huge Skeleton to emerge from the ground.

Before Gu Xi could control the giant Skeleton, the Skeleton opened its mouth, and a human-sized Skeleton wearing a black robe crawled out of the Giant Skeleton's mouth.

"A new student, are you planning to go to the Mysterious Academy?"

The voice was no longer Soul Whisper, but a normal voice.

Before Gu Xi could answer, the Skeleton continued, "It seems you've chosen my way. Although I don't know how you found me, you've made your choice. So tell me, what do you want to learn?"

"You can still choose?"

Gu Xi was speechless.

Gu Xi then realized he had misspoke and immediately said, "Leadership skills, I want to learn leadership skills."

"Leadership skills? Why don't you just take the train? What are you doing here? Well, I understand what's going on now. I know a little about leadership skills, I can teach you."

The Skeleton beckoned to Gu Xi, gesturing for Gu Xi to come closer.

Gu Xi glanced at the Skeleton, and finally took a step forward.

He knew very well that the Summoning had failed, and that the Black Robe Skeleton had crawled out on its own.

The Summoning just now was merely to provoke him to appear.

It's uncertain whether Gu Xi is neutral or friendly.

The Skeleton simply waved to Gu Xi and then began to speak.

"Don't be afraid. Although I don't understand why you came to me, I need to explain the situation of the academy to you."

We used to have a large academy here, which was divided into four departments. Each department possessed a treasure that determined the direction of a basic skill.

The leadership skills you need to learn are not actually taught in our department; our department's foundation is logistics.

The guy on the train, however, had a department whose foundation was leadership skills.

The other two departments are based on the skills of Pathfinding and luck, respectively.

These are also the four basic skills you can learn at our college.

Of course, this was back when the academy still existed.

The Black Robe Skeleton seemed to have thought of something, and sat down directly on the Giant Skeleton's teeth. With a wave of his hand, a tooth cup appeared in his hand, containing a pale green liquid.

After taking a few sips, the Black Robe Skeleton began to speak again.

"However, as some things happened, the conflict between the four departments deepened, eventually leading to a great battle, in which the entire college was blown into the gap between time and space."

As a result, this place has become what it is now.

However, you've come to the right place to learn leadership skills.

In other places, given your status as a necromancer, you would have no way to learn leadership skills; no one would teach you.

Everyone will say one thing, "You're a necromancer, you don't need morale, why are you learning leadership skills?"

You couldn't learn that in our college back then either.

Only now, when everyone remaining in the academy has become this inhuman, ghostly state, will they accept your ideas and teach you leadership skills.

Gu Xi then realized that he was here because of the sentence he muttered when he opened the academy's admission ticket.

The tea called "Golden Cake" was indeed effective.

They actually sent him directly to the most suitable place to learn leadership skills.

If a necromancer wants to learn leadership, he should naturally seek out an undead who has mastered leadership to learn from.

There is no problem with this understanding.

Once Gu Xi understood this, he immediately looked at the Black Robe Skeleton in front of him.

Can I learn all four skills?

"I can teach you logistics right away, but once you've learned it, I can't teach you anything more."

Unless you can find the college that was bombed and its whereabouts are unknown, or find another dean, you won't be able to learn anything else from me.

So you'd better think it through carefully whether you want to learn from me.

Oh, and by the way, I should mention that I'm sworn enemies with that guy on the train who can teach you leadership skills directly.

If you've learned something from me, there's absolutely no chance you'll learn anything from him.

With just one sentence, he shut down some of Gu Xi's ideas.

"Why don't you just say that now that the academy is gone, all you can learn is choose two out of four things?"

"Choose two out of three. You can't learn the Luck spell. That professor from that department obtained the treasures from the other three departments and combined them. He's currently staying with the academy in the gap between time and space."

You won't find him here at all.

Your choices are limited to logistics, leadership, and Pathfinding.

As for leadership skills, you can learn them from me, or you can learn them from the train.

However, once you get to the train, all you can learn next is the Pathfinding.

You can't even learn Pathfinding, but if you want to learn leadership skills from me, I can tell you a place. Go find him, and he'll teach you logistics.

After saying that, the Black Robe Skeleton patted the Giant Skeleton next to him.

Gu Xi suddenly realized something: the Giant Skeleton in front of him was probably the result of the undead combined with some logistics techniques.

He was reminding Gu Xi to be careful when making choices.