Just as the various academies were making urgent preparations,
at Windsor Business Academy, a little-known school more than two hundred kilometers from the Grand Natural Sciences Academy, the four deans were conducting a secret experiment.
Windsor's three vice deans were Rena, the [Blood Reverser]; Rus, the [Scales Reverser]; and Byant, the [Feather Reverser].
Their Esoteric studies came from the same school. They excelled at a form of True Body fusion similar to Orn and Angelina's, and their combined strength was formidable. They had become famous while serving as vice deans at the Grand Natural Sciences Academy.
But there was something few people knew.
The reason their Esoteric studies were so similar was that the specimens used as references for their Profound Meaning True Bodies had not come from Starveil Land. They had come from a mysterious corpse that Windsor had obtained.
It was connected to an event from more than three hundred years ago.
Back then, Windsor was merely a scholar from an ordinary family of hereditary scholars living in the shadow of the three great pioneer legends. The Grand Natural Sciences Academy had already stood for centuries, but some hereditary scholarly families still remained in the Grand Duchy. Such families often possessed extraordinary secret arts.
Windsor's family was one of them.
Her family had a single, unwavering ambition.
They wanted to develop the technology for making Space Boxes, like the Central Orora Empire.
To that end,
over the course of more than a thousand years, the Windsor family had amassed tens of thousands of experimental data points and countless experimental materials through every channel available. For ordinary scholars, finding even one rare Magic Material with space attributes in a lifetime was a stroke of luck. In the Windsor family, such materials were commonplace.
With those resources, the Windsor family