Chapter 2368: Reflection and Learning

————It's a bit late, still about twenty minutes to go~~

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After leaving the Negative Energy Research Institute, Gelinqi still accompanied Xia Duo to stroll around Capital University for a while. Both sides exchanged contact information and agreed to meet again at Chixin University in three days.

By then, Gelinqi would take Xia Duo to visit his former mentors, among whom were bigwigs capable of influencing the review of advanced study applications, and these three days were the time left for Xia Duo to prepare for the "interview."

Chixin University was not easy to enter; even with Gelinqi's help, it only provided a little more opportunity than the average retired individual, and whether he could truly seize it depended on Xia Duo's own efforts.

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Chixin University.

Under Gelinqi's arrangements, Xia Duo temporarily stayed at the on-campus guest house here. Afterward, Gelinqi left, while Xia Duo went straight to the Headquarters Library of Chixin University at the first opportunity.

Gelinqi had already revealed the content of the "interview" to him; this was not really a secret, the key was that ordinary people would not even have the chance for an interview.

"It actually has to do with the college entrance exam!"

Xia Duo was quite surprised when he first heard this news, but then he realized that Chixin University's normal admissions were also aimed at high school graduates.

People like him, who had finished Specialized College and then served in the military, mostly did not meet the criteria of a high school graduate for normal admissions; the first point was that they did not satisfy the Arcanist requirement.

Secondly, it had to do with the foundation; being an Advanced Arcanist at 25 meant that the foundation in all aspects before university was laid very firmly.

Wasn't the reason Maruente went to Specialized College because his previous foundation was weak and he failed to become an Advanced Arcanist in one go!

Now, wanting to go to a university for advanced studies, an ordinary university might show some consideration for his status as an outstanding retired medal recipient and let him pass, but top-tier universities would likely not allow that.

Therefore, right now, Xia Duo at least needed to prove that he possessed the quality of a fresh high school graduate; of course, the more outstanding, the better, as this related to the choice of subsequent advanced study subjects.

After entering the library, Xia Duo headed straight to the section where the textbooks were located according to the index prompts, finding the latest full set of high school textbooks, as well as some supplementary teaching materials.

These could also be traced back in Maruente's memories, but after all, they were not Xia Duo's own memories, and many contents had become somewhat blurred, making them difficult to trace back.

Furthermore, nearly fifty years had passed since Maruente was in high school, and textbooks would have changes and updates; reading the latest version would never be wrong.

"History class?"

In the reading room, the first thing Xia Duo noticed were three thick history books. Although Gelinqi had hinted that history might not appear in the interview questions, Xia Duo was still very interested in how the Chixin Tribe had developed over these 1,500 years.

Previously, there were related memories in Maruente's memory, but except for a few major events he remembered, the rest had been forgotten by him completely.

Not to mention that even for major events, different people had different understandings; Xia Duo wanted to read for himself what the history described in student textbooks was actually like.

Opening the first page of the book and seeing a silhouette of an Elf with two horns on its head, Xia Duo could not help but smile knowingly; wasn't this the image he had in his previous projection!

The first leader of the Chixin Tribe, Maruen!

The history textbook written for high school students was no longer just the history of the Chixin Tribe, but also the history of other countries in the Northland, and even comparisons of major events in different countries during the same period.

In the freshman textbook, Xia Duo saw descriptions of the first leader and the first Executive of the Chixin Tribe working hard to open up a New Homeland; many things he had just experienced not long ago had now become history on paper.

Xia Duo truly had a feeling of being in another lifetime, not just a feeling, but that he had truly traveled through 1,500 years of time!

"Eh—it's that child!"

When seeing the description on one of the pages, Xia Duo could not help but stop his hand from turning the page further. At this moment, the book was writing about the first newborn of the Chixin Tribe whom he had personally delivered, who later actually became an Executive.

After the Executive stepped down, they had been engaged in research and teaching work, and the most crucial point was—that guy had actually served as the president of Chixin University, and even now was still the honorary president.

Still alive!

This really is a marvelous coincidence!

However, Xia Duo did not think about acknowledging the person; there was no need, and it was too dangerous. Today's Chixin Tribe was no longer the simple situation of the past where one could see the end at a glance; there were many things he could not even understand at all.

The water in here was too deep; he felt he could not grasp it.

It was better to follow the original plan: first obtain the previously reserved Advanced Permission Level, get as much of the harvest sown before as possible, and then leave silently.

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According to the high school history textbook, in the fifth year after the Chixin Tribe founded the nation and established its system, which was two years after Xia Duo left his previous projection, the Akaola Kingdom in the Listar Forest was established.

After that, the Northland spent a relatively long period of peace for the Chixin Tribe, about three hundred years, and Siluwende was established because Xia Duo, in his previous projection, had occupied the land corresponding to Siluwende in the Main Plane in order to build a New Homeland for the Demon Descendants.

Siluwende in this Projection Plane still took a fancy to that piece of land; after all, that land was the old home of Aryvandaar, and there were many ruins within it; even if it were archaeology, one could excavate a powerful country out of it.

With the support of Evereska and Akaola, Siluwende launched a war against the Chixin Tribe. The reason was quite ridiculous; the Siluwende side merely brought out an Aryvandaar Noble and claimed that the land where the Chixin Tribe was located belonged to them.

This was obviously not recognized by the Chixin Tribe. Furthermore, Aryvandaar had already been overturned, losing the legitimacy of its rule; what qualifications did a mere old Noble have to claim that the territory was for their use.

Thus, the war happened without any surprise, and this war lasted for nearly four hundred years.

And during these four hundred years, Jielunsita, Wuweilun, Saibohomu, Aotelaisi, and Saladesi were established one after another, and the alliance between the Chixin Tribe and Yiner was also formed during this period.

This war was called the "War of Founding" in the history books of the Chixin Tribe, and it was called the "War of Covenant" in the history of the Alliance.

It was also because of this protracted war that the entire Northland gradually formed a pattern of three major camps. Many details were not recorded in the high school textbooks, but there was a relatively detailed description regarding the end of this war——

The evil Evereska Alliance failed repeatedly in multiple battles, and there was public grievance within the Alliance. Among them, the initiator of the war—Siluwende—even experienced a coup, and it was that coup that completely changed the direction of the war.

However, the two sides had been fighting for a long time, and hatred had long been buried deep in their hearts. Neither side was willing to take the initiative to propose a ceasefire. In the end, it was the three countries of Wuweilun, Saibohomu, and Saladesi, worried about being implicated in the war, that came forward, and under their mediation, both sides stopped fighting.

But it was only a ceasefire; theoretically, both sides were still in a state of war.