The magic academies in the various city-states were places where apprentice mages learned the basics. They taught only fundamental magical knowledge and basic spells.
To learn more about magic and spells, students had to sign a contract with the academy and join it when they graduated.
In terms of core inheritance, the Academic School maintained a monopoly just like the Esoteric School, and would not easily share its knowledge.
The Loran Family was stronger than the Hobarton Family and had inherited some magical knowledge, with quite a few mages among its ranks.
But as for how comprehensive that inheritance was, it was embarrassing to say. They lacked magical knowledge and spell models for many branches.
The Loran Family's magical inheritance focused mainly on fire magic. Finel was a lightning mage, but she knew only a few general-purpose spells and a pitiful number of lightning spells.
The Kurd Magic Academy was a school Medivh had founded to cultivate a human following. Over the past two years, it had conducted a census of the entire population twice and recruited quite a few apprentice mages.
Apprentice mages took a long time to mature; it would be five or six years before any significant results could be seen. And with Medivh commanding a whole host of skeleton mages, the Kurd Magic Academy had little presence.
Medivh paid little attention to the academy, which was still in its early stages, but that didn't mean no one else did.
During the time Finel rented a Mage Tower, she had seen lightning skeleton mages cast spells, many of which she didn't know.
When the Kurd Magic Academy was founded, Finel was in Kurd City and witnessed the spectacular first census of the population's magical talent.
On her return to Kurd City, she paid particular attention to the