"Okay?" I inquired as she held my hand.
If you think after previous lewd things, this is most lewd as in some cultures, then no.
Real lewd things are much worse than these simple two warm limbs embracing each other.
"Yes. Let's go." She answered with a pleased smile on her pretty face.
She was a mess just last night, but after waking up, she was back to her normal, adorable self.
Everything was done, and she had picked up everything she left in the inn of the small town that she was staying in, not far from the hill that we were staying on.
These were the outskirts of the western sector, and the academy was located in the Central.
We were in the same core higher plain as the academy so I could transfer us there easily.
This would use a significant amount of energy which would ultimately weaken me a little but, it wasn't too big a deal unless I'm going to fight an elder dragon.
'And even then, it wouldn't really be that difficult to subdue such a being.'
So, we departed to the castle I had made with my own hands which should now be a different structure completely thanks to the Monarchs.
This entire plain used to be mine but that had changed nine hundred years ago. But I at least knew everything about the major happenings of the last few centuries thanks to Yuri.
=Aqarit.
-Ooooooooong.
I was excited to see what they had made of my palace with my own eyes. Just the excitement alone was worth this reincarnation.
Though I had already seen everything through Yuri, being there was the very thing I had come here for.
So, with a blue light, we vanished, and then...
"Hmm? It's amazing to see it after such a long time." I expressed my genuine surprise.
-Shrrrrrrrrr…
We were before a magnificent structure.
A giant golden gate was on the right end from us.
Many 'people' were walking out of this magical gate at the same time and walking towards the humongous white entrance without doors at the front.
This was strange. Having a gate on the opposite side of an open entrance signified many things, and I meant it to be this way.
I made this gate for people to walk into a place where no 'doors' existed since its creation.
"Oh? Are we here already?"
"Sister~! Look at that~!"
"I'm so not ready for this. Ughhh!"
This was a place anyone could walk in if they were worthy and powerful enough. Just staying in this place could speed up one's growth speed to a maximum of nine percent.
"Do you feel any different? I feel like there's something under my skin now…"
It was no small boost, but some rules were absolute in this place.
'You can't stay here forever under normal circumstances.'
There were many rules and they were complicated so, let's skip that.
This castle was as big as a city and divided into six parts.
All six of them have separate areas as well… something anyone stepping out of those golden gates automatically becomes aware of.
"Haaaaa. Finally a familiar view." Zo was happy to be here as well.
'Outer Palace is where those who come before the opening ceremony stay.'
As I made the palace in a special space with six different seasons happening perpatually at the same time, in a vast plain field, its outer area was something like a city people would live in.
The walls were triangular, so this was just like a medieval castle city, but those of higher status would see it as a fortress.
"Looks like we are on the northwest side. It should take only an hour if we walk, I think."
There were magnificent houses lined in rows and many newly built places at the edges of the outer area. You can learn anything from this academy so the outside where many stay before coming here sets the foundation of their education.
'From things that were seen as 'good' or things that were seen as 'evil' by normal minds, they taught everything here.'
In reality, the concept of good and evil was equivocal. For one, killing someone might be a sin punishable by death itself, while for others, it could be the basic work of everyday life.
'Since children of all cosmos came here or were brought here, it was necessary for this 'world' to set a common ground for the different moral or immoral values.'
For someone, eating their kind could seem gruesome beyond understanding but, for others, cannibalism might be a daily practice.
"What do you think, Rian? It's cool, isn't it?"
"This sure is a cool place."
Understanding from the previous example, they divided this place into parts where different communities gathered, and in terms of the academy, these different communities consisting of like-minded were called [Societies].
The unique number assigned to them identified the area that they were divided into.
"Hehehe, right~."
Aside from them, there were [Nurseries] where little children brought through the silver gate and those born here started everything.
'The ones who handled those children had a special authority in this academy.'
Handling special children like them was a task bigger than handling many [Societies] at once like the [Seers] do.
Mostly, beings with high communion skills worked there, and they had to be graduated from this place with special qualifications first to get the job as I understand.
There were also free spaces like open areas of gardens, lakes, and places to enjoy yourself here, so students frequinted the outer palace regularly.
There were also practice and test grounds here, the place where exams would take place today.
"We have some time, so I think we should hang around a little." Since I had somewhere I wanted us to be, I knew how to spend the time we have.
"I'd love that~." And since I knew she would be up to it as well, she was excited as soon as I brought it up.
Inner palace was the main palace of the academy castle.
The main castle had a total of five high towers, everyone bigger than the next.
The class area was fifth to third, the research area was second, and the resource mine was the highest tower of the five.
Divided into three different high towers, this was where the classes took place.
There was also a special zone inside the inner castle where people with only eminent authority in the academy could go.
This was a place where experiments and management of the academy as well as the students happened, and many things that shouldn't be known to the public anywhere out in the world were trapped on the lower floors of these secret grounds.
'The innermost part of the academy was the area where no one could enter.'
Even if they wanted to, they cannot go past the inner Admin grounds.
'The throne tower, my maain chamber, was not a place anyone could enter without MY permission.'
The simple reason for this was The overlord's throne. That was the believed origin of this whole world and a conceptual place unavailable to anyone but its true owner.
"Where are we going though?"
This was the castle of eternal riches. A place so beautiful that they had to cast magic to hide most of its true appearance.
It was necessary as no normal being could handle its glory.
'Though they had reduced it to nothing but a mere extravagant castle, it was still the most magnificent thing any mortal or higher being could perceive with their limited senses.'
There was no age restriction or anything like that here. If you want to learn and have what it takes to learn, you can learn anything.
The outer part of the castle was the biggest place here, and even though this place may look like just a city, every house in this place could easily fit hundreds of people.
'They used spatial magic in every building and... why didn't I originally think of this?'
Anyway, that was the introduction to my humble palace that became the greatest academy in this world. They did a pretty good job with it, certainly.
"You may think this is my first time here, Zora, but, it isn't. So…" I glanced at her with a mischievous smile after finishing my observation of this amazing plaza.
She at least knew I knew a lot about the academy from our previous conversations, but she did not know whether I had been here or not.
At least, not until now…
'This is my palace so I have to show her some good places, right?'
We still had some time before the start of the main event, and the morning was perfect to be at a certain place in this beautiful castle city. So…
"Let's go somewhere special," I whispered close to her ear and led her through the grand entrance of the origin academy of dawn.
And, as always, she followed my lead with an excited smile on her pretty face.