Chapter 2377: Class

Afterwards, Tuto led Xia Duo and the other twenty-four students to the teaching building and found the classroom for Mythallar Design Class 4, where the furnishings were very simple, containing only a Portal flickering with a faint blue light.

Although Xia Duo had not spent time at Chixin University before, he had heard Gelinqi say that all majors at the Mythallar Academy spent their first semester working on Semi-plane projects.

As for why the classroom was so simple, that was related to the teaching plan, because in the subsequent studies, students would need to integrate the Semi-plane into the classroom themselves and build it into a place for experiments and research.

From then on until graduation, they would conduct their learning and research here.

It is easy to imagine that once the first step is missed, it is highly likely that one will fall behind at every step; after all, apart from the School, there is nowhere else with such a complete and inexpensive teaching environment.

Currently, Xia Duo has many shortcomings, but he is not without advantages; his advantage lies in his experience in the Main Plane, as he has personally created a Semi-plane and personally designed and created a Mythallar.

If nothing else, at least being a qualified operator is not a problem at all.

As for the other students, their past textbooks only contained brief knowledge of Planes and did not involve Semi-plane Genesis or specific operational methods; while the methods Xia Duo knows are certainly more primitive compared to the current ones, they still count as being one step ahead of the other students.

"Come, enter the Portal and go see the practice base for your next fifteen years."

Tuto stood smiling next to the Portal, which made Xia Duo's heart skip a beat; Gelinqi had previously mentioned that during the professional study phase, the mentor for the first project would always give the students some "surprises."

Could it be that the surprise segment had arrived already?

The other students also realized this; after all, they had spent much longer at Chixin University than Xia Duo. Since Xia Duo could hear it from Gelinqi, couldn't the other students find a senior to explain it to them?

At this moment, thinking of the possible "surprise," not a single one of the twenty-some students voluntarily entered the Portal. In the end, Tuto had to call names, and this was where the disadvantage of having an impression beforehand became apparent; Xia Duo was, unsurprisingly, the first to be called.

"Maruente, you have served in the military, go in first!"

"Yes."

Xia Duo did not refuse; after all, there was no danger, perhaps just a scare, but if he were to follow the mentor's instructions completely, he would lack his own judgment.

"Mentor Tuto, may I cast a spell?"

"You may. Do whatever you want, do not have any concerns." Tuto immediately gave an affirmative answer.

Thus, Xia Duo walked to the Portal, began to identify the type of Portal, and finally performed Scrying on the Portal and the Semi-plane it was linked to.

The Scrying result was beyond his expectations; there were no traps on the other side, only a huge, empty space, and the only problem might be that the gravity within it was very chaotic.

In front of Mentor Tuto, Xia Duo did not use any overly advanced Scrying spells. Regarding the gravity characteristics in the Semi-plane, he only knew they were relatively chaotic and felt artificially modulated; anything further could not be obtained through simple Scrying.

However, he also roughly guessed what Mentor Tuto wanted to do. He smiled at the classmates behind him, then turned and stepped inside, "I'm going over first."

Just after entering the Semi-plane, Xia Duo felt his Spellcasting ability was restricted. Not only that, but his body also began to fall continuously in different directions within the space under the influence of the chaotic gravity.

If one entered such a space without knowing why, one would definitely be startled, but for an Arcanist, environmental differences are almost negligible; it is nothing more than a test of whether one can remain calm in an unexpected scenario.

However, for Xia Duo, he had not yet recreated his Arcane Fire, which made things a bit more troublesome than for the other students, but all of this was within his expectations.

Afterwards, he adapted his Spellcasting based on the previous Scrying results, and soon he regained control of Flight and stopped in mid-air.

Then he saw students emerging from the Portal one by one, then flying around in the space like headless flies.

In a situation of chaotic gravity, Flight would also be interfered with; one moment one might be flying upward, and the next moment one might turn to fall downward.

The wisest choice is to stop first, then find the pattern of gravity changes within the space, and finally use that to redesign a Flight spell tailored to this environment.

For university students of the current era, this is absolutely not a problem.

Once all the students had gathered together stably, Mentor Tuto also emerged from the Portal, saying with a look of annoyance:

"To think the Semi-plane the Academy assigned me is so poor, but it is too late to change it now. From here on, it will be up to you students to slowly transform it into what we need."

The first sentence was, of course, not the truth, but the latter was a learning and practice task that Xia Duo and the other students absolutely had to complete.

Next, Tuto began to explain the Principles of Semi-plane birth, the reshaping of the Plane Root, how to connect to a Mythallar, and how to control the Semi-plane through a Mythallar.

All the students listened quietly, but Xia Duo's heart was stirred; the Mythallar of the Main Plane could only link to Magic Items, and a Semi-plane itself does not count as a Magic Item.

To control a Semi-plane, one can only control it indirectly through corresponding Magic Items. Now, it seems that the "controller" is integrated into the Mythallar here, but in reality, it is an improvement in the "precision" of the Mythallar.

If the Main Plane's Mythallar is compared to the old telephone lines of his hometown, then the Mythallar here in the Red Heart Alliance is the Internet of Everything that has long transcended material foundations.

Soon, Xia Duo's first class at Chixin University ended. After Tuto finished speaking, he left, leaving behind only the sentence, "I will come to check the progress in a week."

Xia Duo understood that what followed would test not only the learning and practical abilities of the 25 students in Class 4, but also their ability to collaborate.

Not to mention anything else, there is only one Semi-plane, but there are 25 students; it is highly likely there won't be only one practical plan, so whose would they listen to then?

And even if they argued until they reached a single plan, if they could not unite everyone to complete it together, they would likely fall behind other classes in progress.

If it were just for learning, class ranking would not be that important, but for the next fifteen years, in addition to the normal teaching plan, one can apply for other projects; the School provides the funding, but the results belong to oneself.

This is the true use of class ranking; when evaluating and reviewing independent projects, priority is naturally given to those with higher rankings, as the Academy's funding is not infinite after all.

And for Xia Duo, uniting his classmates has an especially different significance; he wants to turn his private work into a class team project and then use the Academy's funding to complete it.

Each of his 24 classmates is at least a Senior Arcanist, and their foundations are solid; they are simply not comparable to those Great Arcanists of the Main Plane.

The reason the Great Arcanists of the Main Plane can become Great Arcanists is, firstly, due to luck—being able to successfully advance during the Advanced Rank Mage stage and then successfully living until they become Great Arcanists.

The other is their own talent, but with their weak foundations, even if they have some talent, if one were to organize them to conduct research, they would definitely not be as good as the university students here in the Red Heart Alliance.

Not to mention that those Great Arcanists have lived in high positions for a long time, their thinking has already changed, and they are definitely not as good at collaborating as these university students here who have received mass-line education since childhood.