The academy in Middle Earth closest to the invaders in a straight line was called the Solar Eclipse Development Academy.
When Schumacher Reading, the dean of the Solar Eclipse Development Academy, learned of the situation, he felt as if the sky had fallen.
The Solar Eclipse Development Academy had been established less than two hundred years ago, and had only begun to make progress in the past century. He had even drawn up ambitious long-term plans, hoping to compete for central academy status in two hundred years. Now, however, it had received such devastating news.
Although he hadn't taken part in the war against the Destroyers, the records showed that even central academies—each of which had gathered dozens of nearby academies, both large and small—had struggled to survive a war between civilizations. The Solar Eclipse Development Academy was only a fledgling institution that had just begun to gain a foothold.
But he dared not defy the Academy Alliance's orders.
Compared with the possibility of being torn to pieces in battle, openly defying the Academy Alliance would leave him with nowhere to go in the Academic World.
Overwhelmed by suffocating despair, he ordered the academy's dean of studies to sound the alarm bell nine times in a row. This signified that the academy faced the highest level of crisis. All instructors, students, and workers had to drop what they were doing immediately and comply with the academy's highest-level mobilization order.
It took only one day.
With Schumacher Reading's all-out efforts, the Solar Eclipse Development Academy gathered more than a hundred thousand scholars.
Most of them were ordinary Natural Scholar workers and farmers who had received only a basic education. Yet as one large balloon airship after another followed the metal warships toward the Wind Barrier coordinates designated by the Academy Alliance,