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Noren Academy
Aliases
  • The Thirteenth Noren Academy 18
  • Noren Academy No. 13 29
  • Academy 13 29
Kind Academy 33
Leader(s)
  • The dean, a seventh-level wizard 9
  • Dean Avery Knight 40
Base New branch under construction on the Elosia main plane 38
First appearance Ch11

The Thirteenth Noren Academy,18 a wizard academy that recruits thousands of apprentices every five years across its whole plane5 and binds them on enrollment to a long conscription contract.35 It answers to Noren Workshop, which in turn stands under the Star Ring Federation.13 Its dean is a seventh-level wizard, Avery Knight,940 and a new branch is under construction on the Elosia main plane.38

Overview

The academy controls several smaller planes and receives a flood of new materials daily;8 it can draw on all thirteen Noren planes and dozens of smaller ones.14 Candidates take an aptitude test scored to ten across mental strength, mental sea depth, refinement, soul purity, elemental affinity and willpower,2 then choose Combat or Logistics within a day, irrevocably.4 Only third-level aptitude or higher is accepted.28 Apprentices stay about ten years, so two cohorts coexist,18 and every five years a graduating class is sent to a plane that needs conquering, which serves as its conscription.33 Of one batch of over five thousand, 153 came back as wizards.3 Wizards who serve five years at the front get a six-month respite.23

Apprentices trade in academy points and military merits,2224 can buy knowledge and gear only up to first-level grade before advancing,30 and shop a secondhand market where returning wizards sell artifacts.31 The Limestone Realm trial, first a rehearsal for the Workshop's evaluation,16 becomes a yearly institution because apprentice quality has declined.20

Structure

  • Dean: A seventh-level wizard, Avery Knight.940
  • Mentors: Clark at sixth level, all other mentors fifth-level;26 school instructors mostly fourth-level or higher;9 over 180 second-level wizards at the gates on intake day.1
  • Tracks: Combat and Logistics;4 disciplines include alchemy,7 potioncraft,27 soul discipline21 and combat.4
  • Facilities: Task inspection center on the underground tenth floor;8 lower-level storage with a material-sorting project;15 warehouse for higher artifacts;30 spoils warehouse;44 knowledge database.37
  • Bodies: Enforcement team with silver-white golems;11 review panels of at least fourth-level wizards;11 intelligence department;38 archives.46
  • Trial rules: Point tokens, unlimited apprentice-grade gear, self-made formal-grade gear only, third-level apprentices only, emergency escape ring voids the score.18 The teleportation ring ejects an apprentice at the brink of death and leaves a decoy body.19
  • Elosia branch: Under construction on the main plane,38 with Viola as guest professor.43

Notable members

Member Role Notes
Dean Avery Knight Dean Seventh-level wizard.940
Clark Alchemy mentor Sixth-level, the academy's only sixth-level mentor.726
Mars Combat mentor Third-level.4
Resistance Bastion Inspection-center tester 8
Oswald Fifth-level wizard Posed as a Limestone priest in the trial.20
Viola Guest professor Elosia branch.43
Jie Ming Apprentice, alchemy Granted the Level-Two Cultivation Protocol;12 wears the alchemy badge.47
Augusta Apprentice First place in the first academy trial;49 same intake as Jie Ming and Bill Lyn Black.48
Bill Lyn Black Soul-discipline apprentice 21
Horn Apprentice A leading figure with his own core team.29
Amy Greysong, Victor Apprentices Among the test-bound apprentices.29
Jack Wizard Same academy as Jie Ming.45

Relations

  • Noren Workshop: Superior; apprentices sign with the Workshop, not the academy;613 the top ten percent of each trial go to the Workshop test.29
  • Star Ring Federation: Stands above the Workshop;13 contracted apprentices expand territory for it through the Star Orbit Network.4
  • Limestone Realm: Newly acquired plane used as the trial ground.1618
  • Shadow Plane: Campaign target for senior apprentices.25
  • Elosia: Buys Jie Ming's territory there37 and plans decades of conquest against the Demon God's plane.42

History

  • Ch1-4: Intake at the bronze gates, aptitude test, Combat or Logistics choice.124
  • Ch26-29: Separator incident review; Jie Ming cleared of spying by soul, social, mental, cognitive, fate and plane-origin checks; Level-Two Cultivation Protocol approved by silent vote.11101213
  • Ch35-61: Limestone Realm trial announced and broadcast; the trial made a standing yearly institution; rewards collected in rank order.1617192022
  • Ch70-74: Cohort turnover; senior apprentices leave for the Shadow Plane and return mostly as third-level wizards.2325
  • Ch86: Over five hundred apprentices sent to the Workshop test; the academy trial expected to become routine.29
  • Ch162: High-level Alchemy wizards agree to build Jie Ming a seventh-level elemental pool for the Mortal Dust Potion.32
  • Ch220-237: Elosia: takes Jie Ming's bloodline-modification commission, finishes it over twenty-plus years, buys his territory, hunts an illegal wizard, lifts the Sage's island for study.34363738394142
  • Ch263: Archives list the Shadow Plane senior among the fallen.46
  • Ch510-520: Jie Ming, Bill Lyn Black and Augusta confirmed as one intake; Augusta's first-place trial finish.4849

  1. Chapter 1: At the Gate of the Novice Village, Big Shots Everywhere ↩↩↩

  2. Chapter 2: The Aptitude Test ↩↩

  3. Chapters 3-4 ↩

  4. Chapter 3: Promotion and Concealment ↩↩↩↩↩↩

  5. Chapter 4: The Harsh Truth ↩

  6. Chapter 5: Orthodoxy and Testing ↩

  7. Chapter 6: Alchemy ↩↩

  8. Chapter 20: An Anonymous Masterpiece ↩↩↩

  9. Chapter 25: Calm Before the Storm ↩↩↩↩↩

  10. Chapters 26-27 ↩

  11. Chapter 26: Investigation (Part 1) ↩↩↩

  12. Chapter 27: Investigation (Part 2) ↩↩

  13. Chapter 29: Cleared ↩↩↩↩

  14. Chapter 30: A New Beginning ↩

  15. Chapter 31: Authority ↩

  16. Chapter 35: News ↩↩↩

  17. Chapter 38: The Opening ↩

  18. Chapter 39: Departure ↩↩↩↩↩

  19. Chapter 52: The True Trial ↩↩

  20. Chapter 59: High-Level Wizards ↩↩↩

  21. Chapter 60: Rankings ↩↩

  22. Chapter 61: Uncrowned King ↩↩

  23. Chapter 70: A New Cycle ↩↩

  24. Chapters 71-72 ↩

  25. Chapters 73-74 ↩↩

  26. Chapter 74: Rest ↩↩

  27. Chapter 79: All a Setup ↩

  28. Chapter 84: New Mission ↩

  29. Chapter 86: Nine Years ↩↩↩↩↩↩

  30. Chapter 106: Connections ↩↩

  31. Chapter 107: The Senior’s Secondhand Bicycle ↩

  32. Chapter 162: Crisis and a New Journey ↩

  33. Chapter 163: The Junction ↩↩

  34. Chapter 220: Handling ↩

  35. Chapter 221: Messages and Advancement Requirements ↩

  36. Chapter 225: The Incubation Pool ↩

  37. Chapter 226: Miscellaneous Affairs ↩↩↩

  38. Chapter 228: The Mission ↩↩↩↩↩

  39. Chapter 231: The Search ↩

  40. Chapter 234: So We Are the Villains After All? ↩↩↩↩

  41. Chapter 235: The Reward ↩

  42. Chapter 237: The Final Step ↩↩

  43. Chapter 238: Return ↩↩

  44. Chapter 240: Two Troubles ↩

  45. Chapter 252: Teaming Up ↩

  46. Chapter 263: Decision ↩↩

  47. Chapter 403: Assembly ↩

  48. Chapter 510: True Name and Cooperation ↩↩

  49. Chapter 520: A Stalemate and a Troublemaker ↩↩