[Liames was extremely conflicted.]

[She was both distressed about Alice squandering her talent and hesitant about whether to bring Alice to the Roland Magic Academy.]

[For some reason, the Roland Magic Academy had long declined. It was no longer the super strong magic academy that reigned supreme across the Dawn Continent.]

[Since the Revival of Gods, the Roland Magic Academy had become a thorn in the side of all Churches.]

[Almost every month, investigators from different Churches would forcibly enter the Roland Magic Academy under the pretext of investigating the Twilight Saintess.]

[The professors tried to resist, but the Gods intervened directly.]

[This was the only battle of high-level strength resistance against the Gods that erupted on the Dawn Continent after the Revival of Gods.]

[The professors perished in this battle.]

[Roland Magic Academy, having suddenly lost a large number of powerful mages, rapidly declined and gradually disappeared from the eyes of the world.]

[However, as the soil that once gave rise to the Twilight Saintess, the Church and the Empire never ceased their surveillance and restriction of this academy.]

[Due to the presence of a large number of mage graduates from the Roland Academy, they didn't dare to destroy the academy directly, but the restrictions on the new graduates over the years have gradually led to the Academy's inability to attract new students.]

[At first, it was the nobility who gave up on enrollment.]

[Then gradually, it was the middle class.]

[Finally, even the talented from the lower classes gave up on this once mighty academy.]

[If the professors had not gone around seeking magical talents for enrollment, the Roland Academy might have already nominally ceased to exist.]

[Liames stood at the entrance of an Ensate City tavern, gazing at the sky full of stars.]

[Her thoughts returned to twenty years ago when she was still a girl.]

[Her mentor held her hand and told her about the old stories of the Roland Magic Academy.]

[The purest mages never had faith, or rather, their faith was only in truth.]

[And the professors of the Roland Magic Academy were always the purest mages who never deigned to obey those lofty Gods.]

[They were either gentle or radical and irritable, but without exception, they were true mages.]

["Mages should study the truth of the world, not the nonsense of the Gods," her teacher told her.]

[Not long after, her teacher died, at the hands of the Thunder Knights.]

[The cause was the Thunder Knights wanting to topple the last statue of the Twilight Saintess in the Roland Academy of the Roland Empire.]

["That is the statue of an excellent graduate of the Roland Academy! No one can topple her!" Those were her teacher's last words.]

Shen Sui fell into a brief silence upon seeing this.

He didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

The joy was that even after more than a thousand years, there were still people who remembered Vivian.

The sadness, however, was that those people died because of this.

[Alice heard Liames's invitation, falling into brief hesitation.]

[Claude had set a very detailed plan for her.]

[Would Claude be angry if the plan wasn't followed?]

[But Alice did feel she should properly study magic knowledge.]

[She couldn't make progress in her training — was it due to a problem with her training method?]

No, the problem isn't with the training method, the problem is with you.

Shen Sui criticized in his heart.

[Alice felt that she couldn't continue like this.]

[If this delayed her rate of becoming stronger, what if she encountered danger again and became a burden to Claude?]

[The scene of falling before the War God had become an eternal memory for Alice, she didn't want this to happen again.]

[For this, she did her best to suppress her intense anger towards the Church of the Master of Thunder.]

[On the way, she only burned five of the Master of Thunder's churches.]

This is what you call restraint!

Is it Rue, indeed?

[Liames told Alice that once she became a student of Roland Magic Academy, it was very likely she would be antagonized by the Church of the Master of Thunder and the Roland Empire.]

[Alice didn't expect there would be such a fortunate thing.]

[She began to lean towards one side and asked why the Roland Magic Academy had fallen to such a state.]

[Liames raised her head proudly and said, "Because the Roland Magic Academy is the alma mater of the Twilight Saintess, Vivian."]

[Alice's eyes lit up, and she immediately made up her mind.]

[Vivian, the one who defeated Qishala and Freymia, was the most important woman in Claude's heart! Vivian's alma mater, I must go! Even if it's just to punch a card!]

[Alice started asking for your opinion.]

Ah... Checking the time, it seemed I was working at that moment, and then fell asleep due to exhaustion, missing Alice's question indeed.

[You did not answer.]

[Alice assumed you agreed.]

Ding! You obtained a spell card: Opinion Inquiry

Hey, hey, hey! Not answering means agreeing, where did you learn this from!

[Alice followed Liames to Roland City.]

[Though the Roland Magic Academy is still at its original location, due to imperial estrangement and church oppression, the once prosperous neighborhood rapidly declined, now leaving only a vague area of stone and rubble around the vicinity.]

[Yet even so, when entering the Roland Magic Academy, the group was met with obstruction by guards.]

[The guards, looking annoyed, told Alice to leave her name.]

[It was a mandatory order; anyone entering Roland Magic Academy had to leave their name.]

[Alice thought for a moment and wrote down a name on the list:]

[Alois Yimiti]

[Alois Yimiti Hozerville! That's the full name of Witch Hozerville!]

Shen Sui noticed Alice's attention to detail in naming.

Her current main name had already overshadowed her original surname, generally only calling herself Alice, and if necessary, she would report her full name using the surname Modena.

Alois, this name within the Dawn Continent, has many nicknames, one of which is Alice. Of course, according to Alice, her father told her, her name originates from an ancestor of the Hozerville family, a mage named Alois.

Hozerville was Alice's original surname, which gradually gained prominence with the name of Witch Hozerville.

Yimiti, though, was Vivian's surname.

However, your main name uses my surname, and the small name uses Vivian's surname — if I hadn't explained properly, Freymia and Qishala might think you were my biological daughter.

Shen Sui mocked.

[Alice entered Roland Magic Academy and began her studies.]

[There weren't many students in the academy, most of them were brought back by the professors from outside.]

[Alice quickly got along with them.]

[Alice was cultivating.]

[Alice progressing slowly.]

[Alice continuously cultivating.]

[Alice, oh Alice! You must persist! Only with persistence will you succeed!]

[Alice decided to explore around the academy.]

[Alice encountered a squad of Thunder Knights coming for inspection.]

[Alice was very friendly.]

[Alice quickly got along with them.]

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