Chapter 2378: Leadership

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Afterwards, Tuto led Xia Duo and the other twenty-four students to the teaching building, where they found the classroom for Mythallar Design Class 4. The interior was very simply furnished, containing only a Portal flickering with a soft blue light.

Although Xia Duo had not spent time at Chixin University before, he had heard Gelinqi mention 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 also had to do with 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 studies and research here.

It is easy to imagine that once the first step is missed, it is highly probable that one will fall behind at every subsequent step; after all, apart from the School, one could not find any other place with such a complete and inexpensive teaching environment.

Currently, Xia Duo had many shortcomings, but he was not without advantages. His advantage lay in his experience in the Main Plane; he had personally created a Semi-plane and had personally designed and created a Mythallar.

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

As for the other students, the textbooks of the past only contained brief knowledge of Planes and did not involve Semi-plane Genesis or specific operational methods. While the methods Xia Duo knew were relatively primitive compared to the current ones, they were still a 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 stage, 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. If Xia Duo could hear it from Gelinqi, could the other students not find a senior to explain it to them?

At this moment, thinking of the possible "surprise," not a single one of the twenty or so students voluntarily entered the Portal. In the end, Tuto had to call names. This was where the disadvantage of having an impression beforehand became apparent; Xia Duo was, unsurprisingly, the first one 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 bit of a scare. However, 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, don't 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 conducted 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. 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 it was quite 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."

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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 what to expect, one would definitely be startled. But for an Arcanist, environmental differences were almost negligible; it was merely a test of whether one could 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 for him than for the other students, but all of this was within his expectations.

Afterwards, he adjusted 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.

Under conditions of chaotic gravity, Flight would also be interfered with; one moment one might be flying upward, and the next moment one might turn and fly downward.

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

This was absolutely not a problem for university students of the current era.

When all the students had gathered together stably, Mentor Tuto also emerged from the Portal and said with an annoyed look:

"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 transform it bit by bit into what we need."

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

Next, Tuto began to explain the Principles of the birth of a Semi-plane, the reshaping of the Plane Root, how to connect it to a Mythallar, and how to control the Semi-plane through the 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 the Semi-plane itself did not count as a Magic Item.

To control a Semi-plane, one could only control it indirectly through corresponding Magic Items. Now, it seemed as if the "controller" was being integrated into the Mythallar, but in reality, it was an improvement in the "precision" of the Mythallar.

If the Main Plane Mythallar were compared to the old-fashioned telephone lines of his hometown, then the Mythallar here in the Red Heart Alliance was the Internet of Everything that had long since transcended material foundations.

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

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

If nothing else, there was only one Semi-plane, but there were 25 students. It was highly probable that there would not 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 about studying, class ranking would not be that important. But for the next fifteen years, in addition to the normal teaching plan, they could apply for other projects; the School would provide the funding, but the results would belong to themselves.

This was the true use of class ranking. When evaluating and reviewing independent projects, priority would naturally be given to those with higher rankings, as the Academy's funding was not infinite.

And for Xia Duo, uniting his classmates had an extra, different significance. He wanted to turn his private work into a class team project and then use the Academy's funding to complete it.

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