After the new Holy Tower Academy rules were rolled out, the entire Dark Flame Holy Tower seemed to have gained a few more shades of vitality—or rather, urgency.
Every apprentice hurried through every corner of the academy each day.
The dance salons and costume parties organized by the magic apprentices grew fewer and fewer. In their place, the academy's Public Library was packed with people almost every evening.
It was not only the apprentices who had studied at the Holy Tower for over ten years who felt the pressure. Even the newly enrolled apprentices gradually became tense under the influence of this atmosphere.
After the lowered admission standards for apprentices, personally drafted by Saine and approved by Dean Kester, began to be implemented,
the first batch of magic apprentices with initial Mental Strength above 8 points successfully enrolled in the Dark Flame Holy Tower.
The vast majority of these apprentices came from ordinary commoner families. When it came to learning ability, they possessed a little more ruthlessness than apprentices born into Noble Families.
Saine's "Apprentice Elimination Mechanism" appeared particularly suited to these Commoner Apprentices.
Besides the pressure of possibly being expelled from the academy, the rewards for placing among the top hundred in overall rankings were like carrots dangling from a rope, constantly spurring these magic apprentices to study hard and improve every day.
A stick in one hand and a carrot in the other—after a half-year trial period, this set of academy rules that gave equal weight to rewards and punishments left Kester and the other deans extremely satisfied with the final results.
Sure enough, people had to be pushed to bring out their potential.
The enthusiasm and efficiency for learning displayed by the academy's magic apprentices made even a kind old soul like Kester wonder whether he had