The students all exhaled at once, and Hadjar gave the neural network an order to record this. The locals had some strange, fetishistic obsession regarding the subject of martial arts, which the local magic had probably been transformed into sometime in the past. And yet, he still believed that living in a world of might and magic was better than being a ‘vegetable’. This strange quirk in the evolutionary path of these people could be explained by the fact that war, and the constant struggle for survival in general, were more common here than a trip to the store on a Friday had been, back in his old world. “And that isn’t even the most difficult part,” the Scholar continued, “it needs to be reached by the time they turn 16, otherwise the cultivator won’t even be accepted.” A wave of gas

