The meeting of the Ten Giants of the Academy Alliance, convened by Reilo, had been scheduled. It would be held in secret at Windsor Business Academy a month later.
The so-called Ten Giants was a high-level council made up of the three Cornerstone Guardians of the Academic World and the deans of the seven Central Academies. Few people knew of this secret organization, which represented the Academic World's highest authority, but those who did were all renowned figures.
Everyone yearned to become one of its members.
That was why some people also called these ten Academic World powerhouses the Alliance's Ten Elders.
Of course.
The so-called Ten Giants, or Ten Elders, did not mean that the organization actually had ten members. People like Reilo and Xixi Li held the positions of both Central Academy dean and Cornerstone Guardian, so when it came time for a meeting, the two would usually select other highly respected and renowned powerhouses from the Academic World to represent the interests of their respective Eye of the Storm academies.
Before that, however, Reilo had a few other matters to take care of.
First were Xixido, the Humble Scholar, and Megana, the Soul Lens, whom Reilo had invited. Orn had contacted them, and they had come to the Grand Natural Sciences Academy.
It had been many years since they had last met.
Xixido was still as languid and dull as ever. With a Luohao rice stalk hanging from the corner of his mouth, he sat on the sofa in Reilo's office, bored out of his mind, recounting the opportunities he'd found in the Death Storm over the years, as well as how he'd eked out a living after witnessing the Blood Demon disaster in Night's Veil Land and the civil war that followed the collapse of its