"Strength is paramount. A tall, thin man in his forties, dressed in a ceremonial gown, stood tall and straight, and said in a calm and loud voice in front of the more than 20,000 new students in the audience.

This short sentence is his lucky spell. When he answered Archon Mason's question about the Academy's policy with these words, he won Mason's approval and immediately appointed him the first head of the Hecati Academy of Magic.

The archon himself appointed, the first abbot! What a privilege this is in the Empire?!

Peo Wamiler was just a down-and-out civilian teacher just a few months ago. Now, everyone calls him "Dean Peo". He had some psychic powers as a child, but as he grew older and neglected them, this talent gradually faded. But he never cared: that little bit of unpractical spiritual power was almost meaningless compared to the money and status gained by becoming a teacher.

Until one day, he fell into despair. The dean of the Faculty of Arts, where he worked, embezzled a large number of students' tuition fees, but after the revelation, the blame was placed on his head. Some of the gold must have been used for bribes, otherwise how could he have been found guilty? When he was imprisoned in Arkham Prison and had no way out, the warden privately pointed him the other way in despair.

"Psychic liberation?!" his eyes widened in surprise as he read the agreement.

"Shhhhhhhh......h I checked your file and knew that you had some psychic powers when you were younger, so I made this suggestion. Of course, there are risks, but if you succeed, not only do you not have to stay with me, but you may be able to soar directly! After all, this is a plan presided over by the archon Mason, and it is not logical for him to be reused by him in the future?"

Peo's heart pounded, and he reached out in an attempt to arouse his psychic powers...... Sure enough, no, his psychic power has been gone for a long time.

His excited eyes gradually dimmed: "No, I'm afraid I won't be able to pass this experiment...... I can't use my psychic powers anymore......" He lowered his head in frustration, but his eyes naturally fell on the agreement.

"I've heard that whether or not you can pass the experiment has nothing to do with whether or not you can use psychic power now," the warden patiently explained, "Although I don't know the theories of the scholars, if I want to say it, it's the same as blood, you are a nobleman, even if you are temporarily down, you are still a nobleman. ”

"Aristocratic ......" Peo sadly thought of his own background, such a miserable situation may have something to do with the aristocratic status of the damned dean of the Faculty of Arts.

"Ah, speaking of which," said the warden again, "if the experiment had been successful, it would have been possible to become a nobleman! If I had never had the slightest sign of inspiration, I would have gone long ago! Who would want to stay in this dark and oppressive place for the rest of his life?"

"I ...... Is it really possible for me to pass the experiment......" Peo was intrigued.

"Anyway, that's what the top says, the experiment is expensive, and I don't think they're going to look for someone to try it, right?"

Eyes, "I can only recommend you to my superiors, can you participate in the experiment or they have the final say, what do you care?"

Peo pondered for a long time, picked up the protocol and read it again, and finally his eyes stayed on the column "Prediction of Experimental Failure Results".

"Death. "There are a few words written plainly and clearly.

Peo saw that his fingers were shaking, and the cuffs of his prison uniform were on his wrists. He is already in his forties, and if he does not participate in this experiment, when he gets out of prison alive, I am afraid that what awaits him will be a miserable and lonely death.

Why bother? It's better to grab it when you have the opportunity in front of you and gamble on it.

"If you stay here, I'm afraid your hair will be gray by the time you get out of prison. What do you rely on to survive when you go out and be an old teacher?" the warden seemed to put himself in his shoes, expressing his worries.

"Well, I agree. Peo finally agreed.

The burly and fat warden nodded in satisfaction and withdrew the agreement that Peo had signed. As Peo left his office, the warden's smiling face sank instantly, as if an invisible thread had lifted his facial muscles upward. And now, these threads are broken. He looked at Peo's signature on the agreement with a gloomy face, and thought to himself: Who wants to stay in this gloomy and depressing place for the rest of his life? I do, otherwise how would I become the warden? It's a pity that I can't blackmail and abuse this teacher, I hate teachers the most! But ...... He may not live for a few days, and he will die a tragic death in the laboratory.

Thinking of this, the warden smiled contemptuously and coldly.

However, the experiment went much faster and smoother than he had imagined.

It is said that many people were going to conduct experiments on the "liberation of the psyche" that day, but Peo did not see any of them. The entire process was kept secret, with only two guards accompanying him at all times to ensure his mental and physical well-being. From room to room, there is never a turning back.

Peo felt that it was like his fate, and he couldn't go back. But he immediately smiled bitterly at himself, it must have been because of the challenges and changes in life and death that made him sentimental. He is not usually such a person.

Just like what he said to the archon after he had mastered his psychic powers through experiments.

"Meritarianism," he said, "if you asked me to run the school, I would follow that principle." This is the time since I mastered the psychic power, which is my deepest experience of it. The hierarchy of the jungle is well suited to psychics—sorry, the management of the Academy of Magic. The weak can only serve the strong and make sacrifices for the world of the strong when is the right time. ”

A smile crossed Mason's golden eyes.

It's not so much satisfaction as having finally waited for the answer you want.

A total of 12 people participated in the experiment, and 9 of them successfully passed, gaining their own powerful, interesting, or seemingly useless and boring psychic powers, but only the sloppy-looking middle-aged man in front of him said the answer that met his expectations.

"I'm here

Appointing you as the first head of the Hecati Academy of Magic," he said, "I hope you will be diligent and use your strength supremacy to produce a group of magical soldiers who will be useful to the Empire." ”

"Yes, Your Highness. ”

"You can go down and someone will inform you of the exact time you will be in office and have everything you need. ”

Now, Peo has everything he needs.

He glanced sharply at the young people in the audience: "The academy will do its best to train you, but whether you can pass the test in the end and become a useful person to the empire depends on your efforts." ”

The audience burst into warm applause, and more than 20,000 pairs of eyes looked at him eagerly.

"It's just the beginning, but it's all going to start here. Peo bowed his head slightly, thinking to himself.

After that, Dean Peo's faculty members began to get busy. They assigned students classes, dormitories, and gave them instructions and introductions to the main facilities in the college. After that, there is a cycle of training and testing in the body, mind, and other aspects, but the content has nothing to do with spiritual power.

As the weeks passed, and the students with magical aspirations began to question, Dean Peo appeared in front of them again.

He announced to all the trainees that the formal test was about to begin and that all the trainees would undergo an "aptitude test".

The so-called "adaptability test" is not the kind that Reggin did for Matthew. Because Matthew showed a rare and excellent psychic talent at the beginning, he only needed to distinguish between the types he was good at. But the "adaptability test" that Peo refers to is actually the "psychic liberation test" that he himself has endured.

This test is quite dangerous, and in severe cases, you will lose yourself and become a monster that is half human, half monster, and even life-threatening. Moreover, judging by the failure of three of Peo's group of twelve, the probability of failure is not low. These young students who are chasing their dreams will be asked to sign a waiver again before they are about to face the "test", so as not to die in case of failure and family trouble.

What they didn't know was that on the other side of Black Eagle City, in the "Titannis Academy of Magic" open to nobles, there were no tests at all. In fact, they didn't need to do anything, just went to an ordinary school every day, learning aristocratic knowledge, etiquette, and sword skills, which had nothing to do with magic.

These noble children were not in a hurry, because their dean had already warned them: the indoctrination of magic needs to wait for the time to come.

The experiment that the students of Hekati Academy received was another large-scale psychic experiment. Dr. Daimler, the former president of the Association for the Study of Psychic Ability, hopes to find new improvements from these large samples to further increase the success rate. After that, it will continue to be applied to the nobility.

Encouraged by the propaganda of magic and a better future, the young commoners enter the academy with enthusiasm. Some of them pinned their hopes of escaping poverty and living at the bottom of their lives on this, some dreamed of becoming famous on the battlefield, and some were for one

His own selfish desires and sinister intentions are reckless. After a period of further indoctrination and brainwashing in the life of the residential college, only a very small number of people finally retreated and left the college. Most of the remaining students will complete the test within this harvest month.

If there is any difference between the Titannis Academy of Magic and ordinary aristocratic schools, it is that they will have more theoretical courses on magic.

"Our magic is classified," the young lecturer explained clearly to his students, "and it used to be called psionic power, but it was the same, and there were many kinds of it. ”

Although there are many noble children in the audience, they are full of curiosity about half-baked and new things such as imagination and magic. Whenever the lecturer in charge of magic theory started a class, they were always more or less attentive than the others.

"Today's magic can be roughly divided into strengthening, summoning, attachment, magic, illusion, etc., of course, as you know, the definition of magic has just been clearly defined by our great emperor Andrés Cesa Hilfa, so it is inevitable that there will be some omissions in form and content, and no one can accurately predict whether a new type of magic will be born tomorrow. "That's the beauty of magic: the unknown possibilities. ”

"It gives us endless possibilities for humans and subhumans, because the essence of magic is the embodiment of spiritual power. You must be aware of this. Therefore—"

"So as long as our magic is strong enough, we can manifest anything in our minds into reality?"

She was interrupted by a good-looking young girl with beautiful light brown hair, who interjected excitedly.

Rather than being annoyed by the interruption, the lecturer replied approvingly, "Yes, this is the type of 'summoning'. Because nothing you have in your head is too far away from our world. ”

"Can't we think of anything unique?" the girl seemed a little disappointed.

"Maybe you can try. The lecturer encouraged.

"For example...... For example, "how about a giant swordfish the size of a palace with the wings of a manticore!?"

The lecturer smiled and shook his head: "Swordfish and manticore both exist in reality, and you must only rely on the impression of reality when you manifest them." ”

"Ah......" the girl sighed at the lack of her imagination.

"But it's a good attempt," the lecturer said to all the students, "if you want to conjure something unique, it must first be able to live independently in your mind." ”

The students looked at their lecturers as if they didn't understand.

(End of chapter)