Suri Hander.

Never did Melinda believe her plans to be impossible.

She was not coming by her plans by some spur-of-the-moment decisions.

Having guilds was seen as essential in the Royal Academy as the Academy was an environment that had a knack of getting dystopian every now and then.

Without a guild and without considerable strength to stand your ground, it is very easy to be (for want of a better word) bullied in the Royal Academy.

Usually, not even being the disciple of an elder of the Academy would help against the bullying because as long as it was not life-threatening and would not result in a disastrous change in the disciple's life e.g losing their cultivation or the ability to cultivate further, elders were not allowed to interfere.

This was not a perfect system.

Not by any standards.