Academy

The Academy, the only one educational purpose facility in the Fire Kingdom.

Originally, there was a lot of educational institution in the Fire Kingdom. But there was one similarity between all of those institutions. No one would accept commoner.

Rather than not accepting commoner, the payment that had to be paid was too huge for a family of a commoner.

In the end, those institutions became a place where the dominant family and Royal Family was recruiting many people. Commoner slowly left Royal City and then destabilize the Kingdom itself.

Star Royal City became a place where dominant families were fighting for authority.

The late King immediately made a reformation, which was opposed by most dominant families and some people in Royal Family itself.

Thankfully the late King had made a strong stance, fusing all education institutional into one place, called Academy. The prerequisite for entering Academy too was lowered. Anyone of age 7 was allowed to enter Academy without any additional fee. In exchange for having free education, those people would have to contribute to the Academy or even the kingdom.

After many years of reformatting educational institute, now Academy became one of kingdom's foundation. The late King had harvested what he sowed. Many talents were found from a mass of commoner. A lot of commoners became a mighty warrior or even a researcher. The kingdom's situation had stabilized and never had talents deficiency anymore. Unfortunately, he lost his life in the Earth Kingdom's invasion before he had a taste of his hard works.

And now return to the Academy. After a lot of formatting, now Academy was divided into 2 stages, Fundamental Education and Advanced Learning.

For Fundamental Education students, students were mostly allowed into the general area, like the dormitory, cafeteria, practice area, gym, 4 basic elements class, physical class, combat class, and Elemental class.

Advanced Learning students were allowed into most of the facility.

The dormitory was divided into 2, boy's dormitory and girl's dormitory. Fundamental Education's student and Advanced Learning's students were staying in the same dorm as long as they had the same gender. But the students from Advanced Learning area were not allowed to make a visit to the Fundamental Education student's area without prior invitation.

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After getting permission for bringing pet inside Academy, Mingyue went to dormitory's area. The girl's dormitory was located near the cafeteria, so Mingyue felt happy because of the convenience distance.

Girl's dormitory was a 5 storeys high building in a shape of U from above. The girl's dormitory is a big building with a little garden near the dormitory's door.

[Since I came to Academy early in the morning, there should be not many people in the Fundamental Education area's dormitory. The first thing I had to do is reporting to dormitory's landlady to get my room's key.] Mingyue was walking to the girl's dormitory.

"I want to have my personal bed." A voice resounded inside Mingyue's mind.

[This lazy girl, you are merely a pet, not a student here. Why do you need a personal bed?] Mingyue rolled her eyes.

"Just sleep on my bed. It is impossible to pamper you here. It is not my home, you know? Also, one room will have four persons inside." Mingyue gave her my answer via Spirit Brand, aka telepathy.

"Humph. . You human loved to move around while sleeping. You would disturb my beauty sleep." Xiao Jing replied with her disdaining's tone.

"Rather than sleeping, it is better for you to continue your training." Mingyue smiled warmly at Xiao Jing.

[The training I said was more like cultivating. Xiao Jing body is materialized from the condensation of spirit and my Immortal Soul.]

[If I had to make a comparison, then spirit was a seed while my soul was the soils. When both meet, a tree will grow. Well, this tree is my Spirit Brand.]

[For this tree to grow big enough, it had to be nurtured by Elemental I infused.]

[The last step was the fruit. All of that tree would be wilted in order to create its fruit. And voila, this fruit would become a new life like Xiao Jing, my familiar, my pet. And of course, that wilted tree became a new Spirit Brand and created a connection between my Immortal Soul and that familiar.]

[Fortunately, my soul is very strong. Based on my calculation, normal people will not be able to create more than one new life. Their soul capacity was limited. Even creating a familiar would be a hard task.]

[Well, I had a plan to make my second familiar later.]

[Return to Xiao Jing's training. I interested to teach cultivation into Xiao Jing. Different from cultivator that need to absorb qi around him, Xiao Jing utilized her own body. Don't forget, her body was filled with Elemental. The good side, her body had more strength and stamina if compared to another cat.]

[There is also the bad side. Since Xiao Jing was using Elemental from her own body, the more she cultivated the weaker her body. Of course, I had to, what should I call it, refill? Ah, I had to supplement her Elemental into my Spirit Brand.]

[Of course, I let her body recover to the original state, but she was kind of lazy cat. Thanks to it, her cultivation progress was limited in movement technique.]

"…. Make sure your bed is fluffy enough. . ." Xiao Jing compromised with a reluctant expression.

[Look? She was such a lazy cat.]

Finally we arrived at room number 9.

[It's my room's number.] Mingyue muttered with a low voice as she inserted her keys into the keyhole.

[Let's pray they are a good girls.]

When Mingyue opened the door, there were two bunk beds at left and right side. Also, there were two girls that were holding a big bed and tried to put it on the lower part of the bunk bed.

[Err….. Why is this room so messy?]

[There were two bunk beds, so why the bed itself was on the floor?]

At the same time Mingyue opened the door, both girls immediately looked at her and said, " At last another one come." With their glaring and scary face aimed at Mingyue, with reflex, she took a step back.

"You! Come help us, we need another hand." Said the big girl with thick eyebrow and short hair. Her voice was loud.

"Err… What happened here?" Mingyue asked with a low voice as she was confused by the weird event in front of her.

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