Elite Mages' Academy

“Hold on, why is he here? The dean needs rest right now, so we need to know why you’re here…”

“Enough, let us through!” Song Junlang’s expression changed, it was obvious he was not in a good mood.

Everyone else looked at Song Junlang, glancing at the blue emblem on his chest. Even though they were not scared, they had no intention of making a move. One of them carefully said, “We don’t know how you got that thing, but I don’t think it’s something you can obtain.”

“Oh? Are you unwilling to accept it? Then let’s go talk about it at the Supreme Council!”

“Even if the defense minister was here, he still won’t have any power to stop me from leaving!”

“It seems like you all are new recruits. Do you need me to remind you of the power this emblem carries?”

“This is an emblem awarded by the Supreme Council, and in the entire world, not more than five people have this emblem. Those with the emblem are viewed as having the highest authority. In front of this emblem, there are no secrets, and outside of those with the same power, no one has any authority to interfere with them!”

The usually warm Song Junlang had finally thrown his temper. His voice got constantly louder. Even though his power was something that could be easily stepped on in Dawn City, his background was something not anyone could offend.

Xiao Lin was also shocked when he heard it as it was clearly a modern day golden plate!

A few of the men started to turn green in the face. They obviously knew the power of that emblem, but they could not think about how that man, whose power was very ordinary, could possess that emblem. However, now that Song Junlang had directly challenged them, they did not dare to make a move easily. In the end, they could only stare as Song Junlang left with Xiao Lin.

Xiao Lin’s short meeting with the dean lasted for over an hour. On the way back, Xiao Lin did not conceal anything, telling Song Junlang everything the dean had said. This time, Song Junlang did not give him any suggestions, and instead repeated the dean’s last words. “Go back to the academy and don’t return to the colonist territories in the near future.”

The dean said that Song Junlang was someone who knew of the situation as well, and after Song Junlang spoke of the emblem’s powers earlier, Xiao Lin understood where his foundation came from, but Department Head Song obviously did not plan to discuss all of that with him.

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In the spatial carriage, the monitors who had waited for the tardy Xiao Lin for a long time had nothing to complain about. Even the most stupid of them could see that Dawn City was not the same as usual, and they had interacted with too many important people in the past few days, and none of them had told the monitors anything. The position of a monitor was not even at the lowest level of the city’s hierarchy.

Cheng Ming and the others wanted to get some news from Xiao Lin, but Xiao Lin was not in a great mood. Song Junlang had basically forced him onto the platform. Even when he said he wanted to write a letter for Ibeiya in the Rosa Kingdom, he had been rejected bluntly.

Be it Song Junlang, Yu Mei or the dean, none of them wanted Xiao Lin to continue staying in the colonist territories. They were all very clear that Xiao Lin was still too weak, and Dawn City, with its impending new leadership, would be facing a political storm. As for how many would be involved, that was something that no one knew, and none of them wished for Xiao Lin to be involved in it.

The academy was an ivory tower-like existence. No matter how violent the storm ended up being on the outside, the students within would not be affected. Even the defense minister would not dare to cross that line lightly.

Xiao Lin remembered what the dean had alluded to — infighting really was the main hurdle, no matter what the time period. Even someone like Ivanovich did not die to countless assassination attempts by the Normese, nor did he die to the destruction of Earth; he died to the inner workings of men; it really was laughable.

Returning to academy grounds after such a long time and tossing all schemes and traps aside, Xiao Lin finally felt a feeling of warmth. At least he did not have to think about any schemes there.

Since it was a weekend, there were no classes, and the monitors all returned earlier to rest. Some of them had even gathered their group leaders into meetings to understand what had been happening.

Xiao Lin chose to lock himself in his dormitory. He then closed his eyes and entered his meditative state. In that elemental universe that he had spent countless time in, never reaching the end, he found something new.

In his universe, there was an irregular square shaped body. It had a white glow. It did not shine brightly, and the response was weak, but the surroundings of the object were clean, meaning that all the elements had seemingly avoided that thing on purpose.

Xiao Lin could somewhat guess the origin of that object. It was probably the Shards of Creation that he had collected. After successfully obtaining the third shard in Rosa Kingdom, it had fused together with the two he had collected prior, and they probably fused into the object in front of him.

Xiao Lin still did not know what the Shards of Creation were, but they did give him some benefits after fusing, which was the direct increase in his attributes. On top of that, thanks to the fighting during that time, Xiao Lin could feel that his skills had gone through a breakthrough.

Ivanovich had asked him to collect the Shards of Creation. Xiao Lin had thought to only collect them as a favor, collecting them when he encountered them, but never deliberately looking for them.

However, after returning this time, Xiao Lin had a lot more on his mind. The dean’s words kept reverbreting in his ears. The world’s laws were facing collapse, and only those with SS-rank talents could stop it. That had nothing to do with skill, so it had to be something only those with SS-rank talents could do.

Ivanovich had said it as well, that collecting the shards had something to do with the future of Earth and Planet Norma.

Xiao Lin suddenly woke up from his meditative state, feeling like he had grasped something. It was possible that the Shards of Creation were his only clues.

After that, Xiao Lin’s life returned to peace. Every day, he would leave early and only get home late, and he spent every day alternating between attending class and training.

Xiao Lin headed to the library more and more, the library in the academy had been built during the early periods of colonization, and had been constantly added to. It contained basically the entire history of humanity’s colonization, so he had hoped to get some clues from it.

However, Xiao Lin was aware the truly sensitive books would not appear in the outer, lower-leveled sections of the library. He had a B-ranked library pass, at the highest leveled ones for the library were S-ranked ones.