Caster Association Headquarters, President's Office.
Jia Xiu sat on the sofa with a somewhat obedient air. Before him sat the president of the Caster Association, as well as Saint Dero's adorable headmaster, Nico, whom he had not seen for some time. They were here to review an application Jia Xiu had submitted: converting the papers stored by the Association into magic format and placing them in Justina's faith-prayer space.
If that could even be called a space.
So far, the magic world had reached no conclusion on what exactly the power formed by faith was. They only knew it could be converted into mana; everything else remained unclear.
That could not be helped. The experimental condition of studying a god at close range was simply too rare. It had nothing to do with funding.
Besides, casters had yet to figure out what mana itself even was. Studying its conversion relationship with faith on top of that would be far too arduous. Aside from magically converting papers, there was another small request—the main reason Headmaster Nico was present.
A pilot program for the new plagiarism-checking system.
As an outstanding graduate of Saint Delro Academy, although he had only studied there for one year, Jia Xiu still felt deeply attached to it.
After all, it was the only place where he had ever attended school in this world, and his experience there had been quite good. Aurelius's Mage Tower, where he belonged, was also located within the academy. The experience of going to school was just that magical: study somewhere for a while, and it was easy to develop a filter for the place—a sense of belonging that had not existed for long yet was remarkably solid; a strange habit of defending it where only you were allowed to curse it, but