"As always... cough cough cough."

Kiara, who was responding, clearly didn't want to continue the topic. She shook her head, trying to change the subject, and stood up to say, "Yira, didn't you attend the last Tower Gathering? Cough cough cough..."

Yinla nodded in response, saying helplessly, "I was on the battlefield at the time... using a familiar to notify all the mages. Who came up with this idea? It's very difficult for someone like me who doesn't have a familiar."

Kiara laughed heartily at Yinla's complaints, saying, "It was Artiom, the Grand Master of Summoning, who came up with this method... We've only just started trying it out the last two times, and we've found that it's actually working quite well."

At this point, Yinla seemed to realize something and asked, "Mentor, I heard from Mobiras that the frequency of the Tower Meetings has decreased recently. Why is that?"

This problem isn't very complicated.

"Because in the last few hundred years, the number of talented children enrolled has increased dramatically, so the frequency of the Tower Meetings has also increased accordingly. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing."

Kiara patted Yinla's shoulder like an elder and continued, "Ahem... Yinla, come to the freshman lecture hall later."

She didn't specify what exactly it would entail, but Yinla could roughly guess... It was basically graduates standing on a stage, listening to their professors awkwardly praising themselves...

"Okay, I understand, mentor."

...

The number of newborns is increasing, in other words... is the number of people with Mana aptitude increasing?

What is this? A spiritual revival?