Chapter 48 - Resources

Not only humans fighting against humans, but also demihumans were against demihumans, and beasts fighting against beasts.

"The video you just watched were collections of clips from the previous battle in the Worlds Magic Academy Competition." Suddenly said the elder in a stern voice that devoid of emotions.

It was cold and a little hoarse.

Ahem. (She cleared her throat once again.)

The Elites remained silent waiting for the continuation of the elder's words.

"Probably, some of you might already know the purpose of Magic Academies. Or why it was in such a rule or system. It was of course to prepare you from the sudden attacks of the real enemies lurking everywhere.. But before that, some precarious issues needed to be solved at first.

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Right now, this academy was in a tight situation and was in danger of getting pulled out from this world. If that happened, not only the academy would be gone.

Also the city itself.

Since, this city's resources mostly came from the academy's trainees, who were tasked to complete some task at hand or to gather some resources in dangerous places such as the outskirts of the city.

And mostly by winning competitions.

It was one of the world agreements in the Worlds Alliance that humans from the Outerworld were not allowed to pull resources from this Innerworld. Such as mining or drilling oils, even farming was not allowed.

This is also the reason why there is no modern transportation in this world. Actually, we could acquire resources through product trading.

The value of the resources we get depends on the value of the products we traded. These products are, for example, herbs, monster parts, potions, and any items that can be gathered around the city or can be made by us. With these products, we could acquire resources such as oils, stones, metals, foods, and etcetera in exchange.

Yet, the value we acquired could only satisfy the city residents' daily needs. And we are even in danger of starving our fellow residents.

More on that our current situation was at the bottom of resource ranking.

Every academy who won the competition would be able to acquire a massive amount of resources as competition prizes. This prize was equivalent to 10 years of total consumable resources in a city.

That's why, in order for the city to function longer, we needed to win in the competition.

Yet it was not easy to succeed. After all, in this world, there are 300+ academies around the Innerworld.

At the moment, the city had only year-long resources at hand.

Ordinary citizens had no means of fighting mutated beasts. Some might be able to gather some, but not so many that it could satisfy the consumers' heavy demands.

Moreover, ordinary citizens could only gather enough for themselves.

Thus, right now, not only us, the elders but also the academy committees decided for you to undergo more serious training.

Magic Academies are also the training grounds of future militaries, professionals, association magicians, and heroes.

But these past few years, the Middle Region Magic Academy's' previous results could only be described as bad.

The rank bottom in all the academies resource ranking. Although in power ranking, the Middle Region Magic Academy ranks higher. That was because of the appearance of two individuals.

One is the son of the famous magician from the Seeker Association and from a prestigious family, known as Almond Amulet."

Almina's eyes twitched from the name. This name was of course very familiar to her, after all, It was her big brother.

"Before he entered the academy he already reached the level of 5 percent breakthrough in his limiter, which is very rare. With his expert level in wielding a longsword. He was able to reach the top of ranking in the academy. And garnered interest from the other academy's leader. But something happened that made him no choice but to drop out of the academy." For once, the elder's voice was trailed with sadness.

Almina made a twitching face. She noticed the blonde muttered: "Birds of the same feather. Traitor," while glancing at her directions.

"This girl!" Almina thought. She was angered by what the blonde said but did not react openly. Almina chose to remain quiet. She was not a child anymore to argue on the spot with a little provocation from others. And she had things that she wanted to do for herself and not for the others.

Keremi who was in the middle of the two just forced a smile and acted he did not hear anything. Suddenly, his deity who was in sleeping mode fell from his head and landed on the table with a bang. Which caught everyone's attention.

The deity's body rolled a few times. When it stopped, it suddenly pushed his round body using his frog-like robotic arms. Then it poses in a fighting stance. It looks awkward as it doesn't have feet yet.

"Pufft," Keremi chuckled a bit and said sorry to the others, especially to the elder.

Almina sighed. The bitterness from what the blonde said a while ago still remained in her mind. She wanted to graduate in this academy as a top ranker or an ace.

She really did not care to be in the lowest ranking academy. She most wanted to clear the name of her brother, which was falsely accused as traitors from the others.

Almina knows her brother very well.

Two years ago, her brother was accused as a traitor in a case of crippling 5 Elite magicians in this academy, which were his comrades.

Crippling a magician was like taking their bright futures from them. And the victims were Elites. So even with the reputation of his parents in the Seeker Association, it was not of help to him.

After all, the accusers were of famous families also. Elite trainees were commonly from prestigious or infamous families. Families that were able to acquire ancient techniques from their predecessors.

Almond Amulet was brought to the court and was detained in a prison for three months and was not allowed to participate in the competition before the issue was resolved.

After all, the academy's purpose was to produce a hero that would save the world from danger and not a villain who seriously hurt his comrades. This traitorous deed was really a big issue. It even affects the reputation of his parents in the Outerworld.

But the issue automatically died down after the competition ended which was very mysterious and doubtful for the Amulet Family. The Amulet family was also of the top family on the Outerworld. Their family even had their own guild and had many allied families at the top.

Yet after the issue in the academy, their allies started to leave one by one. However, it did not weaken their family's strength. After all, Almina and Almond's mother was one of the rank S magicians in the entire Outerworld.

Since the Seeker Association was not allowed to meddle in the Innerworld's affair, his parents had no way of investigating the issue.

Losing 5 elite members and an ace, the academy had no way of winning the resource battle, which was a team battle composed of the academy's strongest trainees, the elites.

Anger surged in other trainees' feelings after their loss in the competition. Looking for someone to blame for the loss, thus, he has deemed a traitor after the competition.

Which is very unlikely to happen in Almina's perspective. Her brother was a kind person who disliked fighting even with his talent in sword and magic. For her, he was a caring brother.

Almina knows that even a magician was born with heroic desires, not every heroic desire was for good. There were many aspects of human behavior that resulted in the twisted thinking of a person. Even a magician was no exception about this.

And his brother was an ace. So it was only natural that jealousy towards him bore from others who had the ambition of becoming one.

Good thing that the issue only revolves around the upper families. And did not reach on the lower families. In any case, most of the lower families had no time to mind the upper family issues.

Some might gossip, but they usually only ride on the issue then lashes insults but mostly it only at this level and so on will be forgotten.

And also, a person she met from before was here in this academy. Although, he might already have forgotten her.

"Second is the known Ice Queen, Miss Ice. She was a powerful ice user magician and had high proficiency in casting magic. She is a mysterious girl who appeared and disappeared without anyone knowing where she went or goes." The elder paused for a moment and gulped some saliva to wet her drying throat.