The unveiling of the Grand Natural Sciences Academy's third-generation Energy Source landed like a bomb among the various academies.
Months earlier, the Grand Natural Sciences Academy had already sent out invitations far and wide.
The invitations outlined the Grand Natural Sciences Academy's proposal to establish a unified scholarly civilization: the various academies would form an alliance, develop together, and stand against external enemies.
This Academy Alliance would consist of three cornerstones and seven central academies.
Among them...
The three cornerstones were Reason, Order, and Honor. Each would be guarded by one of the three most powerful individual scholars, with successors chosen through a challenge system.
Any legitimate academy dean in the alliance could challenge a cornerstone guardian. If they won, they could take the guardian's place and become the new cornerstone guardian.
The seven central academies would be powerful academies that housed an Energy Source.
Aside from the first central academy, which would be awarded to the academy that performed most outstandingly in the campaign at the Disaster Matrix Base, after that the competition would take place every hundred years, based on the number of deans, mentors, and students each academy contributed.
As the most stable region at the heart of the Eye of the Storm, the central academies would undoubtedly become the most fertile and lush lands within the Eye, perhaps even rich in energy crystal deposits, nourished by the Law Power of the Energy Source.
As a result...
At Reilo's invitation, numerous powerful academies would undoubtedly fight with everything they had to secure a place among the central academies and take part in this campaign.
Of course...
That did not mean that relatively weak academies could simply muddle through—or even skip the campaign altogether.
Not only would academies that tried to muddle through be at a disadvantage when