After a few days of leisure travel, Yale reached Ernst Institute, the finest magus academy in the entire Yulan continent.

The Ernst Institute was located in a rustic area approximately twenty kilometers south of the Holy Capital of Fenlai Kingdom. The Ernst Institute was founded and financially supported by the Radiant Church. Naturally, it was wealthy and knew how to throw around money. They took up a very large space, with a circumference of ten kilometers. Such a huge academy was nearly the size of a city.

Outside of the Ernst Institute, few visible signs of human presence could be seen, it was just an empty mountain range.

Restaurants, clothing stores, bars, and other sorts of service industries were all located on the campus itself. It could be said that the students of the Ernst Institute spent their entire lives within the campus.

Yale looked at the main gate and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

The main gate of the Ernst Institute was fully fifty meters wide. Above the great gate was an enormous, crescent moon shaped construct, covered with all sorts of magical scripts which one could tell at a glance were amazingly complicated. Just from seeing how complicated the scripts were, one could imagine how powerful and mighty the magical formation protecting the Ernst Institute was.

Yale went through the official procedure and went inside the academy.

The Ernst Institute was filled with shady groves, lakes, stone bridges, ancient buildings…an ancient aura permeated the entire place. Just from the size of the giant trees, which seven people would have to surround in order to hold hands, one could imagine how old the place was.

Yale slowly walked through the campus enjoying the natural and scenic beauty around him and finally reached the dorm he had been assigned to.

Dorm number 1987!!

After looking inside, Yale asked his butler to arrange his things inside. Previously, Yale had planned to live in the institute for at least few ten years as no one is allowed to graduate before reaching level 6 mage level. Based on his talent, this amount of time was just about right.

Hence, his father had naturally arranged plenty of things for him and had already gotten permission from the institute to modify the dorm according to Yale's taste. He was not going to let his son stay in a rundown dorm for a few decades.

Once again Yale couldn't help but feel that means named as money and influence were never bad.

Following the instructions of the butler, several muscular men started arranging things busily.

Soon when they were almost done with arranging everything for Yale, two youths entered the dorm with slightly surprised faces.

One of them was a head shorter than Yale and had brown hairs and brown eyebrows... Upon looking at his gait while he was walking towards him, Yale identified him as the main character, Linley Baruch.

And the person who was a head shorter than Linley and looked like a lay killer in making was obviously Reynolds.

Immediately upon seeing Linley and Reynolds, the Yale's eyes brightened, and he smiled at them

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"You guys are my dormmates, right? I've waited so long for you guys. Up till now, it's just been me here. Lemme introduce myself. My name is Yale, and I suppose I just barely qualify as a member of the Holy Union."

"What do you mean, you just barely qualify as a member of the Holy Union?" Reynolds mumbled, and then said, "My name is Reynolds. I'm from the O'Brien Empire."

"My name is Linley. I'm from the Holy Union's Kingdom of Fenlai." Linley smiled as well.

Just then Yale's butler stepped forward and bowed respectfully.

"Young master, we've arranged everything."

"Mm. You can leave now. Go back and tell my father that in the future, I'll definitely make him proud. Oh, right. Remember…every year, he can't forget to transfer money into my magicite card. He should know very well that a magus needs a lot of money for his magistaff and socketable gems." Yale said loudly and casually.

"Yes, young master." The man said respectfully.

Yale nodded, satisfied, then dismissed the men with a wave of his hand, as though he were a general.

"Magicrystal card?" Reynolds stared at him in amazement. "The magicrystal card is only offered by the 'Golden Bank of the Four Empires', which all four of the great empires established together. I heard that the processing fees for requesting a card totals a hundred gold coins."

"Right on." Yale was quite knowledgeable about this. "The minimum starting balance for a magicrystal card is at least a thousand gold coins. But I'm afraid that a thousand coins wouldn't be enough to even sustain a month's worth of expenditures for me."

The last sentence was almost inaudible for everyone except for himself. Yale had a lot of things that he wanted to do thus money was of utmost importance.

He would naturally secure a seperate source of income but it would definitely not hurt him to ask for more from his father.

"You really are a rich guy. My dad only gives me two hundred gold coins a year." Reynolds mumbled. "And he even said that he wants me to spend my time focused on studying magic."

"Just a hundred for me," Linley laughed. "But for a simple life, it's enough."

"Meeting like this was fate. My money is your money. If you run out, just come find me! In the future, we'll probably be living together for decades. After all we'll be bros for decades. Why quibble about 'yours' and 'mine'?" Yale was extremely expansive, but just as he finished speaking…

Linley and Reynolds both started.

"Decades?" Linley stared at Yale in shock.

Yale said casually and naturally, "Linley, you can only graduate from the Ernst Institute if you reach the rank of a magus of the sixth rank. For a magus, the higher you progress, the harder it becomes. For most people, it takes a couple decades to become a magus of the sixth rank."

Upon hearing this, Linley frowned.

As Linley was contemplating or perhaps talking to his spirit advisor, grandpa dohering,

"Is everyone here already?"

A clear voice rang out, as a child walked into the room. Approximately the same height as Reynolds, this child looked a bit more mature. "Hello, everyone. My name is George. I'm ten, and I'm from the Yulan Empire."

Yale, Reynolds, and Linley all gave basic introductions about themselves to the newcomer.

"George, you are ten? But you look the same as me." Reynolds said to the side.

George immediately began to laugh.

The eight-year old Reynolds and the ten-year old George were of the same height. Both were the shortest in the group. Linley was half a head taller than them, while Yale was the tallest of them all.

"Enough of that topic. I just found out from the admissions office that every one of the hundred new students have at least high levels in both elemental affinity and spiritual essence. I even discovered guys who have 'exceptional' levels in both elemental affinity and spiritual essence. What monsters." George seemed to have good inside information.

"That's very normal. Which student in the Ernst Institute is weak? But have you guys heard of the unmatchable talent who is studying at the Ernst Institute?" Reynolds looked at the other three.

George smiled and replied.

"I've heard of him. The number one genius of the Ernst Institute, 'Dixie', a talent that appears once in a century. He is a dual-element magus, and has exceptional levels of elemental affinity and spiritual essence. But his spiritual essence is especially amazing; 62 times that of others his age. Usually, reaching 30 times is considered 'exceptional' level, so his precise level should be 'super exceptional', but since the highest level is 'exceptional', that's what he is classified as."

Upon hearing of Dixie, Yale couldn't help but turn to Linley, Dixie's sister was going to become the wife of main character standing beside him with an innocent look on his face.

Yale thought that it would probably not hurt him if he gets in the good books of main heroine after she has developed feelings for Linley.