In Saine's eighty-third year after joining Dark Flame Holy Tower, he presided over the second Regional Holy Tower Academy War.
This time, Dark Flame Holy Tower had more than twenty-three thousand apprentices participating in the war, far exceeding the previous session in number.
However, none of the tower masters appeared in this Regional Academy War.
The apprentice war was overseen by the deans of the various Holy Tower Academies and several Third-Level Great Magicians.
To Saine, although the overall quality of this session's apprentices surpassed that of the previous one, he did not take it as seriously as he had before.
The reason was that his mindset had changed.
Saine believed that the little ones from his academy could achieve results that would satisfy him.
At the same time, having already participated in one war, this chaotic melee among apprentices no longer gave him the same sense of novelty as before.
Of course, a few of the apprentices in this session still drew Saine's great attention.
For example, the daughter of Level-1 Magician Faine—the little girl named Goria—would also participate in this Academy War as an Advanced Apprentice.
Goria was already over forty years old this year, but her cultivation talent seemed inferior to her father's. She had yet to break through to the Quasi-Magician level.
Saine had practically watched this little girl grow up.
Although he had not taken her as his disciple, the little girl was free to enter and leave Saine's dean's office.
In the eyes of others, she already counted as half of Saine's disciple.
As for having been stuck at the Advanced Apprentice stage for a full twenty-six years, the little girl showed nothing unusual before outsiders. Yet in private, before Saine, she revealed her sensitive and self-abasing side.
Saine had never believed that advancing