News of Reilo, [Sun Power] and dean of the Grand Natural Sciences Academy, returning soon spread throughout the Academic World.
After all.
He had been gone for sixty years. Even among the once-renowned great scholars, many had long since forgotten him.
After all, everything was constantly changing; change alone was eternal. So what of those great scholars who had once been renowned?
But once their own interests were involved, everything changed.
"The Academic World's fifth Sacred Demon Artifact, the Particle Realm Eye Wand, has appeared."
"Tears of Dawn will be offered as a mission reward to the first person to find any high-level civilization of rank three or above beyond the Wasteland!"
Without a doubt, this was the first time in the history of the Academic World that a Sacred Demon Artifact had been offered as a public reward!
Soon.
The scholars of the Grand Natural Sciences Academy also learned that their legendary dean had returned. He soon gave a public speech, urging the new generation of scholars to form their own teams and venture beyond Starveil Land, humanity's established habitat, into farther and more unfamiliar regions.
After that.
Although public reports about Reilo gradually disappeared, he began making deeper contact with ancient scholars who, like him, had long vanished from view while researching the Academic World's most advanced fields.
Flickering lamplight.
The crystal chandelier seemed to be affected by some inexplicable force, its light bending and refracting ever so slightly.
"[Astrologer] Hei'erwen seems to be growing stronger as he makes more and more contact with those people."
The voice was somewhat hoarse, filled with an indescribable, sinister eeriness.
Two figures sat in the room. One was Corleon, [Dark Seal Master], who had been the first to visit after learning of Reilo's return.
Two sparse white hairs grew from his