21 Joining the Nacesai Academy (1/2)

Yale followed Swordmad in silence; he also understood the meaning of his master leaving the clan.

Yale was happy to see how his master cared about him and as his master also left the clan, Yale felt completely detached from the clan.

However, he felt that showing happiness about something that had provoked a calamity for the clan would make him look like an evildoer, so Yale didn't open his mouth.

Yale didn't care about the clan, but he also didn't wish for the clan's destruction nor any bad thing to it. Since Yale left the clan, to him, the Roanmad Clan had become like any other clan in the Nacesai City, completely unrelated to him.

In almost two hours, Yale and his master reached the doors of the Nacesai Academy where there were two guards to block any outsiders from entering.

Of course, the Nacesai Academy had protective spells that would be activated if some intruder surpassed the guards.

The guards weren't an impediment to Yale as he had an identity medallion to prove his qualifications as a student, he could enter without any problems.

However, the guards stopped Swordmad from passing as he didn't have any identity medallion.

”Sorry, sir. You could only accompany him until this point.”

The guard blocked his path, but he wasn't arrogant towards Swordmad. The guard didn't know who Swordmad was so he was careful that he wouldn't offend him.

Furthermore, three days ago was the Nacesai Academy Recruitment Test Day and those who were approved started to arrive at the Nacesai Academy accompanied by their elders. Those elders tried to accompany the kids inside, so Swordmad trying to enter with Yale wasn't anything surprising.

Yale had only missed the test for three days; he would have been very unlucky if he hadn't had the qualifications from beforehand as the Nacesai Academy Recruitment Test Day happened only once every three months.

The guards thought that Swordmad was like any other elder, but the loud voice that resounded a moment later proved that they were wrong.

”Let him enter!”

The guards instantly moved to a side giving way to Swordmad without any obstacles, they recognized that voice, and they didn't dare to disobey it.

The source of that powerful voice was an old man that was waiting for them inside, he looked towards Swordmad and smiled.

”Old friend! I haven't seen you in years, but you are still the same as always.”

”I can say the same about you. People like us don't change that easily.”

Indeed, powerful experts like them couldn't easily change as they already experienced a lot and they had mostly fixed demeanor and habits. Furthermore, they had very long longevity, so they stopped aging for a long time ago.

That was the opposite of Yale and other kids of their generation; they were in a period that their appearance and character could change a lot in almost no time.

As long as one advanced in practicing a Path, the longevity would increase, and the aging would slow. However, one wouldn't recover the lost youth.

A Rank 1 Magus had double the lifespan of a mortal; then they would also age at half the speed. However, if one reached the Rank 1 at fifteen years, one would remain with the same appearance until thirty and then began aging at half speed.

And if one reached it at twelve, then it would remain the same until twenty-four, and only if that person's rank wouldn't increase more otherwise, the aging slowed even more.

That's why in the world seeing a youngster wasn't equal to seeing a real youngster, some fearsome experts looked like teenagers, and they were usually the ones with more potential.

The Warrior path also slowed the aging but in the firsts ranks the rate is vastly inferior to the decrease of the Magus Path.

Swordmad and the academy's old man looked old because they were truly ancient and had lived enough to age even with extremely long lifespans.

Furthermore, increasing the power became more difficult the more powerful one was, so even if one managed to have a breakthrough and expand the longevity one would have an old appearance.

”You should be Yale; we have been waiting for you. I'm the Nacesai Academy chairman; you can call me chairman Sainac. I still need to thank you for your merits saving Ange those years ago. ”

That old man was the Nacesai's Academy chairman, and also its founder, in all the history of the Nacesai Academy's only had one chairman.

He was the most powerful and ancient person in the whole Nacesai Academy, and there were only a few comparable to him in the whole city, of course, Swordmad was one of them.

Both have been old friends since who knows how many time ago, but they rarely met.

Sainac was the one who issued orders to spare no costs in Yale's recuperation after the incident in the clan's gathering, he saved Ange and furthermore, he was his old friend disciple.

”Greetings to chairman Sainac.”

Yale bowed towards him, as an old friend of his master and the chairman of the academy was something who Yale would show respect even if he weren't told to do so.

After Yale bowed, Swordmad spoke to his old friend.