Initial Founding of the Knight Academy (I)

The mountains near the Northlands always bore two colors.

One was the splendor of white snow, filled with icy Dead Silence. The other was the spring green and autumn gold brought by the changing seasons. At their border, the two intertwined evenly; often, after walking a hundred paces north, one would enter an entirely different environment.

The Northern Kingdom Knight Academy was built at just such a boundary.

Travel east along Northwind Avenue, then turn north when nearing the Griffin Mountains and head into the Mountain Forest. After listening to the roars of beasts and great birds for half an hour, the view would suddenly open up, revealing a vast clearing. Layer upon layer of houses had been built against the mountain there. There were few stairways between them; instead, metal cables connected the buildings one by one. Ordinary people needed some skill to get from one place to another.

That was also the original purpose behind the Northlands knights' design. Mediocre Apprentice Knights had no right to stand high above; only those who worked hard to hone their skills and bodies could walk there as if on level ground.

But this was far from friendly to many young nobles who had come from afar.

They had brought quite a few servants to attend to their daily needs, but one could hardly expect those servants to leap about like monkeys. Even the nobles themselves could not do it.

Thus, after arriving at the Knight Academy, they faced two choices.

One was to live at the very bottom if they wished to enjoy the comforts provided by servants and slave girls, while enduring people constantly trampling overhead.

The other was to live higher up, where they could admire the vast Griffin Mountains and dazzling rivers and peaks. But there would be