It was exactly as the principal guessed.
Lina was the one who was controlling the teachers like puppets and lending part of her energy to execute the best possible formation without needing to act directly. She was still interfering, but at least she was using those teachers as a proxy, so it wasn't that serious, and the breakthrough to Rank 1 was an important one worthy of her interference.
The teachers had lost their will and only acted as Lina instructed, but they would return to normal once the process finished.
Moreover, due to their experience, although unconscious, their proficiency setting up formations would increase greatly.
Sadly, there was no way to focus on formations to become a Law Master.
That was because the Formation Law doesn't exist at all.
The Laws in the planets were infused by their creators, so unless the creator had a full understanding of the Law, others on the planet wouldn't be able to reach that level.
At the same time, the only Laws possible to create were those that had an Essence on the universe, and the Formation Essence didn't exist.
Although some supreme experts were capable of creating Essences, not in the universe, and add them, the conditions to do it were quite harsh, and even those fulfilling the conditions might not be able to develop a new Essence. Not even Lina's father was capable of doing such a feat despite being an Origin God.
For mortals, they needed to follow one of the existing Laws, there was no other way for them to reach immortality.
Even after turning strong enough, as being fully linked to that universe, they would never be able to create their own Essences.
Just that restriction was enough to erase the chance for almost everyone. In fact, it was unknown for most experts unless they were deeply related to someone who existed before their universe was created.
In the end, those that existed before the universe was created were all elusive figures, most of them only existed on legends.
As for the most famous one, he was someone that Lina met when she was young because her father had a chance to spar with him. His father was completely defeated.
That expert was known as the Battle God, real name unknown. He was known for having created a new path derived from the Origin Path, and despite being a level lower than Origin God, he could kill Origin Gods with ease.
Moreover, he was the one who created all the Essences related to fighting. The Sword Essence, the Archery Essence, the Martial Arts Essence, and the rest were all created by him.
Since Lina had been born, he had never managed to meet anyone else that ancient in the real world. Of course, he was ancient age-wise, but he still looked young. Aging wasn't a problem for even people at Lina's level, no need to mention those stronger than her.
Lina only knew of another expert in that era because she inherited one of the five fragments of the legacy that he left behind despite being alive, so he didn't need to create something like a legacy. It was more of a way of selecting honorary disciples.
That was the most powerful expert of their universe, the one who created it.
Liye also had a fragment from that legacy, and there was another fragment hidden in that world, which was why Lina wanted Eini to get it, but that wasn't something that could be gotten without being fated with.
People at such a high level had far surpassed the Essences, so the existence of the Essences was negligible for them.
Once one surpassed Essence God and became a World God, Essences already lost most of their importance.
Moreover, things like formations could be far easily set up once one mastered some Laws, so it was usually considered that there was no need for mortals to find mortal ways to create formations nor to exist a Law dedicated to it, better to understand the other Laws and use them.
Still, it was possible to increase the proficiency on formations like on swordsmanship or archery, but it would never lead the person to master a Law, so it was usually considered quite a waste of time by experts.
Organizations like academies are the ones most likely to learn how to use formations to protect themselves, and they viewed them importantly.
However, for powerful factions, even a Law God wasn't considered an adult by them, so they didn't think that their kids should bother too much in creating organizations. They may support some as a form of training for the future, but directly managing them wasn't recommended.
At that moment, Lina was quite disappointed.
"Only two Laws. Her enlightenment is quite lacking. To have only managed to be enlightened on two Laws when reaching Rank 1, and never been able to be enlightened on them before... It seems that her path will be a slow one."
If anyone else were to hear Lina, they would die of embarrassment. Even among the five strongest Law Gods, only Lina and Liye were enlightened in more than two Laws before fully reaching Rank 1. The others were just enlightened on one or two.
As for others, they wouldn't even dream of being enlightened about Laws while still haven't even reached Rank 1.
Most of them wouldn't even know what a Law was until far later.
However, Lina's standards were based on her own experience, which was setting the bar far too high.
She was someone who was enlightened at least once on all Laws before reaching Rank 1.
She knew that the talent inherited on her soul was a mutation, so she shouldn't expect Eini to reach the same level, but she was expecting at least six Laws as the minimum.
Not even her father would have such high expectations for Eini. Enlightenment on two Laws at such a low level was already great.
Six Laws were just too much for someone so weak.
It was publicly known that Liye had been enlightened on at least six Laws before reaching Rank 1, but that was because he mentioned that he was enlightened on the five he mastered and mentioned that those weren't the only ones. However, since he hadn't mastered them, he didn't want to mention them. Thus, the exact number was unknown. Still, it wasn't on all like Lina.
However, Liye wasn't an ordinary figure either. His grandfather was the Battle God, and his mother was the only other person on their universe to have reached the same level as the universe creator. Although his soul had been cursed from before being born, making everything more difficult for him, his talent was still something others couldn't hope to have.
On the other hand, although Eini came from a powerful faction, she didn't have a mutated talent like Lina, nor her family was strong as Liye's.
Liye's father rand Lina's father were lifelong friends, like brothers, but in Liye's family, his father was far weaker than his mother and his grandfather. It was clearly his mother's side, which was the strongest one. Still, Liye's mother loved her husband a lot, so she never tried to act as if he was inferior.
Lina's father was comparable with Liye's father, but that was all. Both were powerful experts with a big reputation, but they couldn't reach the level of the ones like the Battle God or Liye's mother.
Thus, unless the talent inherited on her soul was mutated, it was great for someone like Eini to have enlightenment on two Laws.
Still, Lina couldn't avoid being disappointed.
On the other hand, she was surprised by Shiba's resonance with the Death Law and the Life Law.
Although she could sense that it was resonance and not and enlightenment, Shiba was born as a slave, he didn't have any inherited talent on his soul, nor he was talented. He was accepted as a disciple by someone like Liye, so it was expected that he was more powerful than others at his level. However, gaining some understanding of the Laws at such a low level without inherited talent was almost impossible.
Although the resonance wouldn't have as many benefits as enlightenment, the benefits were still huge enough, and Shiba was still at level 8. He wasn't in the midst of advancing to Rank 1 like Eini, which increased the enlightenment chances a lot.
Eini was barely gaining some understanding before finishing advancing to Rank 1, so although she obtained it before reaching it, it was barely before it.
On the other hand, Shiba was only level 8, so he was really obtaining some understanding before reaching Rank 1.
"Well, if she wants to be with Eini, he needs at least this much of understanding, but I will need to be harsh with Eini if she doesn't improve more."
Although Eini and Shiba's accomplishments weren't that different, Lina couldn't measure her sister in the same way as Shiba.
If Eini was a diligent as Shiba and had such a resolute mind, she would have been able to at least gain enlightenment on an additional Law with her talent.
However, Shiba was like that due to his past, Eini didn't suffer so many hardships. Although her mindset improved a lot after the Forest of Illusions, that couldn't be compared to the years of slavery Shiba suffered.
For Shiba, those experiences were both shackles and opportunities. If he could break his mental shackles, it was normal that his mind would reach higher levels, but if he didn't, he might not even be able to continue training.
If he had failed to kill the berserk guy and the others died due to it, the shadow it would have cast on Shiba would be one that would have harmed his training path a lot.