After the Magnetic Pole incident, the upper echelons of the Academic World began making frequent secret contact.
Almost all senior scholars learned through the Grand Natural Sciences Academy that a civilization called the Destroyer Civilization would attack the Academic World in the near future.
The reason this civilization would attack the Academic World was the interference of a being called the Magnetic Pole.
It seemed the Grand Natural Sciences Academy wasn't the only one. Besides Xixido, others had also discovered traces of the Magnetic Pole. They simply lacked sealing techniques, hadn't managed to capture it, and hadn't studied it as thoroughly as the Grand Natural Sciences Academy had.
To oppose the Destroyer Civilization, the first thing the Academic World needed to do was undoubtedly learn as much about it as possible.
After the rapid development of the Third Golden Age, the Academic World had grown steadily stronger. It was already worlds apart from what it had been over a century ago.
Even the number of Pioneers, by incomplete count, had reached more than two hundred.
There were also plenty of scholars who could wield god-level abilities through Holy Magic Devices. Add to that their various Catastrophe Weapons and their reserves of tens of thousands of gray Bean Soldiers, and by the scholars' own assessment, the Academic World had nearly reached the strength of a level 4.5 civilization.
With another four or five hundred years to develop, the Star Binding Technique from Star Source Holy Mountain could provide a steady supply of high-grade Magic Materials, while the large-scale development of Middle Earth after its unification would allow the Academic World to fully realize the potential of its Third Golden Age. By then, it would nearly reach the level of the Flowing Sand Civilization, approaching the strength of a Lighthouse-class civilization.
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