Chapter 283 Enrollment and Recruitment

Ten years passed in a flash, and in the Elosia plane, the Nolen No. 147 Wizarding Academy finally welcomed its historic opening day.

The academy's magnificent gate, made of enchanted metal and star sand, towers into the clouds, exuding an aura of knowledge and power.

Benjamin, along with several other wizards who were temporarily assigned to maintain order, quietly hovered in the air above the gate.

Below, a group of children came from all directions and were lining up to enter the school.

With longing and wonder on their faces, they represent the first seeds of hope for the Eloshia plane.

However, looking at the sparse team, Benjamin couldn't help but shook his head in his heart and sighed softly.

"The number of people... is too small."

He roughly estimated that the total number of apprentices who came to register was probably less than three hundred.

Compared with what he saw on the Noren 13th plane, where thousands of apprentices rushed to enroll every time, this seemed too deserted.

However, this is understandable.

The human beings in the Elosia plane as a whole have accepted the guidance and qualification transformation of the wizard civilization. After all, it has only been a few hundred years, and the foundation is still shallow.

To reach the level of talent explosion in mature dimensions, it will probably take thousands of years of continuous accumulation and evolution.

After all the freshmen were guided to the designated area for qualification review and registration, Benjamin slowly landed on the open Black Stone Square in the center of the college.

At this moment, recruitment platforms for various wizarding schools have been built around the square, and flags of various colors and emblems representing different schools are swaying gently in the breeze.

Jemin glanced around and found that the number of schools here was far less complete than that of Noren No. 13.

For example, the Logistics Department only has seven or eight platforms, while the Combat Department is much better, but there are only dozens of schools.

As Dean Avery Knight said, Nolen College is in its early stages and is seriously short of faculty.

He strolled over to the platform marked "Alchemy".

The place is decorated quite simply, with a long table, a few chairs, and a triangular flask and a hexagram emblem representing the school of alchemy.

Benjamin imitated his mentor Clark in his memory, sat in the main seat with an expressionless face, took out a thick magic book with an ancient cover from the storage space, spread it on the table, and pretended to read.

However, his mind was not at all on the obscure runes on the pages.

"What should I teach them in the first class?" His thoughts drifted away, with a hint of excitement and nervousness that he could hardly suppress because he was a first-time teacher.

"Like our mentor did back then, will we directly demonstrate the basics of alchemy, then start by explaining the most fundamental properties of materials and energy ratios, and finally use a 'failed alchemy accident scene' to make them deeply understand the importance of rules and safety?"

"Or... try another approach? Start with an alchemical puzzle that requires unconventional thinking to solve, guiding them to experience the spark of wisdom and the charm of logic, and planting the seeds of rigor amidst the fun?"

Benjamin had to admit that when he stood in the position of a teacher for the first time, he was indeed filled with passion to try, and even began to carefully conceive the teaching syllabus and classroom interaction.

However, all his ideas and expectations were soon dashed.

The admissions process lasted a full day.

The afterglow of the setting sun dyed the square a warm golden color. There were more or less several names recorded in front of the platforms of other schools, especially several combat schools, which became popular choices.

Only the platform in front of the Alchemy School where Benjamin was located was always empty.

Until the wizard assistant in charge of admissions began to clean up the venue and announced the end of this year's admissions, no young person left their name on the registration form in front of him.

Benjamin closed the book he had barely flipped through a few pages of and looked at the blank list in front of him, stunned at first.

Then, a helpless smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He felt relieved.

The reason is self-evident.

There is a huge gap between the contract terms stated by the logistics department and the combat department, whether it is the initial resource allocation or the "sounding" prospects.

For these young people who have just come into contact with the wizarding world and are full of longing, the grand picture of "controlling elements, flying in the sky and escaping the earth, and exploring endless planes" promoted by the combat school is undoubtedly more directly attractive than the "dedicated research, analyzing matter, and creating miracles" described by the alchemy school.

Apprentices who can rely on their own wisdom to see through the long-term value and importance of core knowledge of the logistics department and make choices are rare.

Even at the original Norn Academy No. 13, most of the students who chose the Logistics Department did so because their parents were wizards. They chose the Logistics Department under their guidance rather than relying on their own abilities.

It doesn’t seem surprising that there was no such “wise man” among the first batch of 300 people.

Thinking back to how he had been enthusiastically thinking about the teaching plan, Benjamin couldn't help but smile at himself.

"Well," he stood up and put away the desks and chairs. "Without students, it's quiet. I can still get the benefits, and I can also have plenty of free time for research. It's not necessarily a bad thing."

He originally thought that he would no longer have to teach and could enjoy this extra rest period with peace of mind.

Unfortunately, Benjamin still thought the academy's mission was too simple.

After a few days of leisure, a formal task notice from the dean's office was sent to his laboratory.

He was personally selected by Dean Avery Knight to participate in an important long-term project - the transformation and integration of the Elosia planar community.

Elosia was chosen as the site for the new academy because the high-level wizards of the Norn Workshop saw it as a large plane community with huge potential.

The main plane where Norn College is located shoulders the heavy responsibility of cultivating the future cornerstone of civilization. It needs to carry and nurture an increasing population and provide sufficient resources and environment.

The best way to expand the plane and increase its size and resource abundance is to gradually pull and merge other adjacent small and medium-sized planes that are suitable for the environment or have been transformed to be suitable with the main plane.

This is a grand project and also the core of the long-term investment made by the senior wizards of the Noren Workshop.

All Benjamin needs to do is to participate in this huge project as an auxiliary staff member.

The leaders were naturally Dean Avery Knight himself and several high-level wizards.

Jieming is mainly responsible for carrying out specific plane environment surveys, laying basic magic arrays, energy flow guidance and other "helper" work.

He checked the list of personnel participating in the mission and found that there were quite a few wizards recruited, and the proportion of those in the logistics department was obviously higher.

Although this large-scale project involves adjusting the basic rules of the plane and constructing the energy system, it is the stage for logistics wizards to show their strengths.

However, Benjamin suspected that the reason why there were so many wizards in the logistics department was simply because their logistics department had not recruited any students.

(End of this chapter)