X Advancement Academy.
The news that Grand Natural Sciences Academy had developed the third-generation Energy Source had long since spread across the Wasteland, and of course X Advancement Academy had heard it too. It had also sent an envoy to observe and investigate.
The two Vice Deans, [Wooden Horse Man] Bosi and [Black Gold War Soul] Dija, stood on either side of the female Dean atop the High Tower, gazing out at the independent airships and fleets gradually converging here from across the Wasteland.
For this grand occasion, X Advancement Academy had even built two temporary air ports, yet they still seemed overcrowded.
"Nearly two hundred balloon airships have gathered at the academy now. The air ports are packed, and we've already started a rotating schedule. Quite a few balloon airships don't have a permanent berth. Among the major academies of the Wasteland, Xilan Natural Sciences Academy, Biological Specimen Academy, Fladick War Academy, and Heiwun Academy have arrived. Only Grand Natural Sciences Academy and Flame Demon Roar Academy are still missing."
The Wooden Horse Man, Bosi, reported the situation with a pair of dead-fish eyes and an expressionless face.
Only when he mentioned Grand Natural Sciences Academy did a faint, complicated emotion flicker across Bosi's face.
His younger brother, Edward, had actually become a Vice Dean of that academy. Back when he'd heard that Edward was fleeing and being hunted by the Holy See, he'd thought he would never see him again.
As it happened.
The envoy X Advancement Academy had sent to observe the third-generation Energy Source had been none other than the Wooden Horse Man, Bosi.
"Among the many academies that have already arrived, there are also two particularly unusual ones. One is Thunder Century Academy. They came a long way aboard the surviving lineage of an extinct