On the Continent of Time.

Two hours had flown by, yet Sonya still hadn't fully recovered from her shock.

Right now, the city of Cailleach, no, the entire Starry Kingdom, was buzzing with the name Damian. Every citizen tuned into the league broadcast had witnessed, with their own eyes, the birth of a new Sword Saint.

What's the significance of a Sacred Realm sorcerer? To put it simply, even Sonya's own mentor, Professor Trosan, had only managed to reach the Sacred Realm level. Across the entirety of Sword and Roses University, there were only four Sacred Realm professors in total. Yet, that handful was enough to give them the highest concentration of Sacred Realm sorcerers outside of Truth University itself. Most other academies possessed only two, and some scraped by with just one.

Because of this, Sword and Roses University was frequently criticized by its peers for disrupting the market, inciting price wars, and engaging in unfair competition. They were accused of giving their Sacred Realm sorcerers a lifestyle of "high pay with zero work." Take Trosan, for instance, she spent almost all her time researching personal spells and had only casually taken on two students this entire year. How was that any different from keeping a powerhouse on the payroll just for show?

However, Sword and...