After leaving Mu Jin, Jiang Hai did not go to rest or eat at the cafeteria. Instead, he headed toward the area occupied by the Soul Tool Department.
Mu Jin's afternoon lesson had sparked his interest in soul tools. The moment class ended, he could hardly wait to head over to the Soul Tool Department.
With the token Fan Yu had given him, he could enter almost any part of the Soul Tool Department except its core areas. Of course, most soul engineers needed absolute quiet when making soul tools. Jiang Hai could watch them work, but if he deliberately disrupted their manufacturing, he would have to cover the resulting losses. In serious cases, he might even have the token Fan Yu had given him confiscated.
Where students in the Martial Soul Department needed the Soul Fighting Arena, the athletic field, and the Mimicry Training Area for their studies, students in the Soul Tool Department led much more secluded lives. Outside of classes, they spent most of their time in research institutes and laboratories. The Soul Tool Department's inner and outer courts were located together, and the entire academy had only one unified Soul Tool Area, where all its students lived and studied.
Apart from the cafeteria, most of their living facilities were also separate from those used by Martial Soul Department students.
Last time, Jiang Hai had only taken a hurried look around the Soul Tool Area. Returning now, he could not help nodding inwardly in approval. Even though classes had ended, quite a few Soul Tool Department students were still absorbed in their laboratory work. Some were pumping bellows to forge soul tool casings; others were polishing finer inner casings or engraving core arrays. Engraving core arrays was especially vulnerable to interruptions, however, so most students secluded themselves