At that moment, in the headmaster's office of Shandar Academy, Headmaster Lu Yin Weilu Si was discussing the enrollment plans for this class with the newly recruited head of the Mechanical Department, Kang Nisi Tan.
Shandar Academy had been founded in the middle of the God Establishment Era. It had existed for tens of millions of eras and boasted a long history. As a prestigious old university, it was famous throughout the Federation for its ancient Ancient Art Body Tempering Method and was practically a household name in the Eastern Star Region.
However, the academy had not been doing well lately. Ancient Art Body Tempering relied on inherited advantages. Although it was a classic, it had failed to keep up with the times. Many bigwigs in this era had begun criticizing Shandar Academy's educational methods as outdated.
By contrast, many comprehensive academies had already used innovations in machinery, arcana, biology, and other technologies to develop more scientific methods of body tempering. Their results were often no worse than Shandar Academy's, while also allowing students to learn more about the impact of new technologies on combat players.
This was also why Shandar Academy's students had faced difficulties in the previous era. Ancient Arts placed heavy emphasis on bloodlines, causing the quality of the students produced by Shandar Academy to vary wildly. They were also extremely unfamiliar with new technological products. After joining a Celestial God Lord's faction, they usually had to spend a great deal of time teaching the students basic knowledge about combating new technologies. Their overall abilities were far inferior to those of students from universities of the same rank.
At the beginning of the Tai Kang Era, this era's beginning, the new headmaster, Weilu Si, had carried out reforms. He had spent heavily to establish new departments, hoping