Chapter 122 Explanatory Ch: The awesome Link. (Skippable)

Chapter 122 Explanatory Ch: The awesome Link. (Skippable)

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(Explaining the reasons for the expulsion of hundreds of students from the academy.)

In the Great Freya Academy, there are barely around 100 second-year students left, and all of them are now in the same class, because of the smaller number of students, there's no need for different classes now.

At the beginning of the first year, a thousand students had been enrolled in the academy, but by the first half of the second year, only around a hundred of them were left.

Most of the students were kicked out because of their low potential and a few of them died last year. Only the talent potential of B rank or above is still surviving until now. And by the end of the third year, likely, only ten or twenty students will graduate and the rest will also be kicked out too

This is the cruel and competitive environment of the greatest academy of the human empire.

There are many other second-rate or lower-level battle academies out there in the various cities and districts of the vast human empire, but only the great Freya Academy has the highest criteria for graduation.

The graduation criteria for most battle academies is to become a C ranked by the end of the third year and finally graduate by completing an assigned mission.

Even most elite battle academies only require the students to reach B rank to graduate successfully.

But the great Freya academy is different, it asks the student to reach at least rank A in three years to graduate successfully. This is a cruel method but it's effective.

Most of the A-rankers or above rank individuals present today, have once been students of the Great Freya Academy.

You may wonder, why the academy bothers taking lower potential individuals then, if they have to kick them out in the end either way why not just take the most talented ones and be done with it?

The answer to this is very simple, the academy needs funds for its management. They have to give salaries to S-rankers and many A-rankers. Moreover, they need to maintain the top-notch facilities they provide to the students.

Although the government is providing most of the funds for the academy, it's still not enough. Not to mention the academy's premises are equipped with the most cutting-edge technology in the human empire, they also have one of the SS-rankers 'Raji Croft' sitting here in person, as the principal of this academy too.

(Most of the money is spent by the government to satisfy Raji and make her stay in the academy, if she had mood swings one day and she left the academy, the academy would be in great trouble.)

Although the academy scouting staff is always on the lookout for talented children, it is still extremely rare for them to find children with A-rank potential, and finding a kid with S-rank or above-level talent is like finding a gem in the vast ocean.

Such gems rarely even appear once or twice every few years and are highly sought after.

The scouting staff of the great Freya Academy is spread all over the human empire and tries their best to rope in, as many talented children as possible, but very few awaken the potential of A-rank or above each year, thus it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Barely a hundred people awaken A-rank potential every year in the vast human empire, and most of these children are from poor backgrounds, thus the academy has to give them free scholarships.

Since others can't see the status panel, it's very easy for people to lie and say that their potential is A-rank or above, etc. This used to cause major problems when finding the real talented people from the fake ones.

But then came the rise of the 'Appraisal Artifacts'. These artifacts are capable of 'appraisal' and talent potential detection. Nowadays these artifacts are so common that you can go to any random convenience store and buy the cheapest one of them easily at a very low cost.

Even the cheapest 'Appraisal' artifact is capable of appraising items of A-rank or below.

They can even be used to find the talent ranks of the individuals easily, you just have to ask that awakener to put a little bit of his mana in the appraisal artifact and that's it. The result will be their maximum potential rank.

Every scout of the academy carries an appraisal artifact capable of appraising talents up to S-rank. Only For SS-rank talent or item appraisal, would you have to go to specific locations like the Freya Academy's talent inquiry office or the talent or item appraisal, would you have to go to specific locations like the Freya Academy's talent inquiry office or the reception hall of various major guilds.

Currently, there's no way of 'Appraising' the maximum talent potential of people like Link, who have 'SSS' level talents. Also, there's no known artifact or item in the world with the rank of 'SSS', most people even consider the existence of Rank 'SSS' a lie and think that only 'SS' rank is the highest an individual can reach.

This is the reason why Link is said to have SS-rank talent by the people there's no way to accurately measure his real talent.

Except for a few people, no one knows that Link is a talent beyond the ranks of SS. Even though the world only knows him as an SS-rank talent he is still rare and worthy of praise in itself.

(Ashtel Rex hid the information and didn't let anyone know about Link's true potential. It was to protect Link from the prying eyes of the world.)

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Author's Notes.

I have been thinking of writing a chapter to explain the various major details of the world. This chapter is to further enhance the 'World-Building' aspect of this novel.

Question of the day.

Did you guys like this 'explanatory' chapter?

1.Yes (It's good to explain the workings and the structural blocks of the world.)

2.No (Personally, I am not the type to read things in detail, I only look for the story...) (Wait are you even a true reader if you do that?)

3.Other (I don't know anything, I am still trying to comprehend Link's awesomeness...)

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