Cultivating in the Wizard World-Chapter 314 - 282: Enrollment and Mobilization

Ten years passed swiftly, and finally, the Nolun No.147 Wizard Academy on the Elorcia Plane welcomed its historic opening day.

The academy’s grand gates, forged from enchanted metal and star sand, towered into the clouds, exuding an aura of knowledge and power.

Jeming, along with several other wizards temporarily recruited to maintain order, quietly hovered in mid-air above the gates.

Below, a group of children arrived from all directions, lining up for admission.

They were filled with anticipation and wonder, representing the first seeds of hope for the Elorcia Plane.

However, seeing the rather sparse queue, Jeming couldn’t help but shake his head inwardly and sigh softly.

"The numbers... are too few."

He roughly estimated that the total number of apprentices registering was probably less than three hundred.

Compared to the spectacle he witnessed on the Nolun13th Plane, where thousands of apprentices would contend to join each enrollment, it seemed rather deserted.

Yet, this was understandable.

After all, humans on the Elorcia Plane have only been under the guidance and aptitude modification of the Wizard Civilization for a few hundred years, barely scratching the surface.

To reach the mature plane’s level of a talent boom might require thousands of years of continuous accumulation and evolution.

Once all new students have been guided to the designated area for aptitude reassessment and registration, Jeming slowly descended onto the academy’s central expansive Black Stone Plaza.

At this moment, recruitment platforms for various wizard schools had already been set up around the plaza, colorful banners and emblems representing different schools swaying gently in the breeze.

Jeming glanced around, noting that the number of schools here was far inferior to those on the Nolun13th Plane.

For example, the Logistics Element only had seven or eight platforms, while the Combat Element was somewhat better but still had only a few dozen schools.

Indeed, as Dean Avery Knight mentioned, the Nolun Academy was in its nascent stage, severely lacking in faculty strength.

He leisurely walked to a platform marked with the words "Alchemy."

The setup was quite simple, with a long table, a few chairs, and symbols of the Alchemy School: a triangle flask and a hexagram emblem.

Jeming, mimicking the demeanor of his mentor Clark from memory, sat expressionlessly at the main seat, pulling out a thick, ancient-covered magic book from his storage space, pretending to read.

However, his thoughts were completely adrift away from the book’s obscure runes.

"What should I teach them in the first class?" His thoughts had already wandered far, carrying a hint of excitement and some nervousness from the novelty of being a teacher.

"Should I do as my mentor did back in the day, directly demonstrating basic alchemy, and then explain the fundamental properties of materials and energy ratios, ending with a ’failed alchemy experiment’ to impress upon them the importance of rules and safety?"

"Or... should I try a different approach? Perhaps start with an alchemy riddle that requires unconventional thinking to solve, guiding them to experience the spark of wisdom and the charm of logic, planting the seeds of rigor amidst fun?"

Jeming had to admit, standing for the first time in the instructor’s position, he indeed felt a surge of eager anticipation, even starting to meticulously plan the syllabus and classroom interactions.

Yet, all his plans and expectations quickly came to nothing.

The recruitment process lasted a whole day.

The plaza was bathed in the warm golden hue of the setting sun, with each school platform having recorded a few names, especially the combat schools, which became particularly popular choices.

Only at Jeming’s Alchemy School platform, it remained deserted.

Until the wizard assistants responsible for recruitment began to tidy up the venue and announced the end of this session’s enrollment, not a single young figure left their name on the registration form before him.

Jeming closed the barely-flipped book, looking at the blank list before him, first somewhat slack-jawed.

Soon after, a wry smile appeared on his lips.

He was at peace with it.

The reason was self-evident.

The contract terms laid out by the Logistics and Combat Elements were vastly different, whether in early resource allocation or "perceived" future prospects.

For these young individuals just introduced to the Wizard World and filled with longing, the grand narrative of "mastering the elements, soaring heaven and earth, exploring the Endless Plane" promoted by the combat schools undoubtedly had more direct appeal than the Alchemy School’s "devoting to research, parsing matter, creating miracles."

Apprentices capable of relying on their wisdom to perceive the long-term value and core significance of the Logistics Element and make such choices were exceedingly rare.

Even at the Nolun No.13 Academy, most students selecting the Logistics Element did so due to having wizard parents, guided by them rather than their ability.

And among this first batch of three hundred, it seemed unsurprising that such "wise ones" did not appear.

Recalling his previous enthusiastic contemplation of teaching methods, Jeming couldn’t help but laugh self-deprecatingly.

"Oh well," he stood up, tidying the table and chairs, "no students, then it’s peaceful. The salary benefits remain, and I have plenty of time for free research, which may not be a bad thing."

He initially thought his teaching duties had thus ended, allowing him to enjoy this additional period of rest.

Unfortunately, Jeming still underestimated the academy’s tasks. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

After a few days of leisure, an official task notification from the dean’s office was sent to his laboratory.

He was personally selected by Dean Avery Knight to partake in an important long-term project— the transformation and integration of the Elorcia Plane Community.

Elorcia was chosen as the new academy site precisely because the High Tier Wizards of the Nolun Workshop saw its potential as a large-sized plane community.

The main plane hosting the Nolun Academy bears the responsibility of nurturing the future foundation of civilization, needing to accommodate and sustain a growing population, providing ample resources and environment.

And the best way to expand the plane, enhancing its scale and resource richness, is to gradually integrate neighboring small and medium-sized planes that are environmentally suitable or suitably transformed with the main plane.

This was a grand project and a core segment of the long-term investment made by the high-level wizards of the Nolun Workshop in this location.

Jeming’s role was to serve as an auxiliary member in this vast endeavor.

The leaders, naturally, were Dean Avery Knight himself and several High Tier Wizards.

Jeming was primarily responsible for executing tasks such as plane environment surveys, basic array installations, and energy flow redirection, among other "supporting" tasks.

He reviewed the list of personnel involved in the task and noticed a significant number of wizards were recruited, with a noticeably high proportion from the Logistics Element.

Although such large projects involving the adjustment of fundamental plane rules and energy system construction were precisely the stage for Logistics Element wizards to excel.

However, Jeming suspected that the reason there were so many from the Logistics Element was purely because these logistics folks didn’t recruit any students.