Six months later.
After the battle at the Pangula Highlands, the Academy Alliance had established its foundational order once and for all.
The seven central academies were the Grand Natural Sciences Academy, the Flame Demon Natural Academy, the Thunder Century Academy, the Fladick War Academy, the Heiwun Academy, the X Advancement Academy, and the Xixi Li Natural Sciences Academy.
Sadly, among the contenders, the Fladick Academy, the Biological Specimen Academy, and the Life Tree Academy had ultimately failed to make the list.
Seratos and Corleon, at least, took it in stride.
After all, they had witnessed how brutal the war had been. The cost of claiming a place among the central academies had been staggering. Their two academies had suffered relatively little damage in the conflict, which was fortunate. If they had to choose again, they would probably lean toward the latter outcome.
More than ten thousand scholars had been killed or wounded, over two hundred balloon airships had crashed, and even the Shenwu Giant Turtle had died in battle. Among the dead were more than a dozen academy presidents and members of the Academician rank.
And the spoils of this war were this metal cube, more than thirty meters across.
Over the past six months, with the full support of the Grand Natural Sciences Academy, a state-of-the-art curvature-space technology laboratory had finally been built at a secret base belonging to the Windsor Natural Sciences Academy.
Although they could not equip it with a third-generation Energy Source in the near future, Reilo had used the resources at his disposal to install three second-generation laboratories for parallel use. They still could not fully meet the laboratory's needs, but they were more than adequate for ordinary basic experiments.
At that moment,
Windsor led Reilo through layers of secret guards and surveillance, into