"Heavenly God above, isn't that Master Akali?"
"It is! It really is Master Akali! What's she doing here?"
"Idiot! Master Akali is the head of the Mana Communications Department. What's so strange about her being here?"
"But hasn't Master Akali been working with the Dragon Race on the Hyperspace Communication Network all these years? How does she have time to come here?"
"Maybe she's here to conduct our Final Examination?"
"Are you kidding? Why would our exam need Master Akali to come in person?"
"True..."
Lucian paid no attention to the chatter around him. All his attention, his entire gaze, was fixed on the person who had suddenly emerged from backstage.
It really was Master Akali!
In a sense, Master Akali was just as much an idol to Lucian as Miss Linoya.
Yet what she represented as an idol was entirely different from what Linoya represented.
What Lucian felt for Linoya was affection and longing, but what he felt for Master Akali was pure reverence!
Master Akali had single-handedly created the Mana Communication Network, laid the foundations of modern magical communication, and stood at the very pinnacle of their era!
Before her, people on the Sains Continent could only rely on messengers to contact people elsewhere.
Compared with the past, modern methods of communication had practically ushered everyone into an entirely new world overnight.
It was precisely the widespread application of Magic Communication Network theory that had brought the Sains Continent into an era known as the "Information Explosion" in recent years.
People no longer had to spend their entire lives in their hometowns, cut off from all news of the outside world and knowing nothing about it.
Now, people could learn about anything happening anywhere on the Sains Continent without even leaving their homes. They could also communicate