Qinghuo Magic Academy had a rule: unless one was an honored guest invited by the academy or an internal member, no one other than Qinghuo Magic Academy students could enter the academy grounds.
Thus, apart from the sea of people outside the academy gates—noble servants escorting their young masters and ladies to school—most people seen walking around after entering Qinghuo Magic Academy were Qinghuo Academy teachers and students.
Of course, some nobles had sufficiently powerful backgrounds to pull strings within the academy and allow outsiders inside as well. Such things were rare, but they did happen. The academy's upper ranks did not concern themselves with such trivial matters, while the middle ranks turned a blind eye.
"It really is spacious."
Linley had already entered the academy. Looking at the envelope and map handed to him by an academy teacher, he prepared to head toward the dormitory marked in the letter.
The academy roads were broad, with all kinds of buildings standing in rows. Men and women of varying ages, dressed in Qinghuo Magic Academy's distinctive mage robes, chatted and laughed along the way, occasionally sizing up new students like Linley and the others.
Not only were Qinghuo Magic Academy's admission requirements exceptionally harsh, but graduating was equally difficult.
All magi had to reach the level of a rank-seven mage before turning sixty in order to graduate. If they had not reached rank seven by sixty, Qinghuo Magic Academy would forcibly expel them.
Do not let the rank-seven mage level seem easy.
This was the Material Plane. It was already extremely difficult for ordinary people to become magi, let alone high-level magi such as rank-seven mages.
Every year, many Qinghuo Magic Academy students were expelled for reaching the age of sixty. Thus, one could see teenagers and young adults within the