Iver quickly adapted to campus life at Royal Law University.
It was Thursday afternoon.
Two days had passed since Iver had appeared in the Glass Staircase Newspaper for the second time.
The situation was completely different from the last time, at Pelican Bar. Although Iver had made the paper then, not many people at the university knew who he was.
After all, hardly any students would buy an expensive, serious newspaper like the Glass Staircase Newspaper.
The Glass Staircase Newspaper was far too serious. Most of its news was extremely brief—for example, the death of some influential figure, personnel changes among the upper ranks of a department, an industry flourishing or falling into crisis, adjustments to laws and taxes, explanations of key policies for the current or following year, and important events taking place in other countries.
There was no gossip or entertainment, nor the serialized novels, short poems, jokes, or interesting advertisements that often appeared in other publications. Even the details of many reports were incomplete, and many major events were summarized in only a single sentence.
The most frequently appearing words in the Glass Staircase Newspaper were all kinds of "names." To students, most of those names were unfamiliar, and seeing them only gave them a headache. The sole point of interest was probably Master Agnes's "magic paintings."
So ordinary students simply would not buy the thing. It had nothing to do with intelligence or learning... If someone suddenly bought the Glass Staircase Newspaper, they probably were not after its knowledge or information, because they could not understand it. Either their parents had told them to, or they were just showing off, pretending they could read it.
Back then, to the students of Royal Law University, Iver had merely been "the unfamiliar young man who suddenly appeared on