Spell Return: The Wheel of Time

Chapter 361 The Beginning of Storms

Spells, spells... and more spells. No matter which half of the planet is now slaughtered by this news, everything within sight has been slaughtered. However, although communication is extremely fast and convenient in today's Internet information age, it is still not seeing it with one's own eyes or touching it in person.

There are still people in those distant countries who treat these as jokes or a means of sensationalism, just like the countless rumors about Area 51, aliens, UFOs, lizard people, etc.

But for now, this is just a rumor of this era. Of course, there are people who don't believe it, but there are also many people who believe it. Not only are there the local people who swear to prove it, but there is also alternative evidence at a higher level.

Especially when Japan released an official news that they would launch two schools specifically to accept minors with supernatural powers as students, it further ignited this public opinion.

A school with supernatural powers... This sounds like a perfect match for many people's fantasies. Countless people have discussed it, and there are even quite a few courageous action-oriented people who are ready to actually go there to check out the situation.

However, when they applied, they found that Japan had temporarily stopped most of the entry requests, and the unusual move of blocking the country's borders provided alternative proof for this.

What's even more bizarre is that none of the parties have officially responded to this type of news, and there have been certain restrictions on the official response. If it weren't for the fact that the spell really attracted attention, leading to unprecedented active dissemination and exploration among people,

Otherwise, news in this regard might not have spread so widely and quickly. But it cannot be said that there is any control. If anything, it is more like a laissez-faire attitude, not stopping it but not taking the initiative to take the lead either.

For example, Dongguk has produced some programs that call on people not to be superstitious and to look at things with a scientific eye. You can draw the conclusion from these programs that "spells are a trick", or that the authorities tacitly acknowledge the existence of supernatural powers, but have made this stance in order to prevent blind people from worshipping them too much and causing major problems in the trend of thought.

There are places like the East that neither deny nor affirm, where a word can be understood and explained in a thousand ways. At the same time, there are naturally also those countries whose political systems are still inseparable from religion. They take this opportunity to acknowledge the existence of the supernatural and use it to publicize the existence of the supreme power of their own country and religion.

There are many such places, because apart from the East Country, the world is so big that there are more inferior existences than you expected, just like Neon and another tiny place next to it. Some organizations that are allowed to exist in these two places can be judged as evil ways that need to be eliminated and arrested, but they exist legally there.

In another direction, a certain big country is an example of a country whose leader is even deeply involved with the religion in his country, not to mention the White Eagle Country. The supreme existence and belief in Yahweh have made their people firmly believe in many fictitious things in the past, and now even greater waves have been set off because of the curse.

There are many news like 'Captain White Eagle is real', 'The world still has a dark side', 'Superhumans are always around us'... and the actions of the White Eagle Country are even simpler.

First of all, it had basically no response to the random speculations and clamors of its own people. After all, White Eagle already had a lot of similar experience in this regard. Now the only direction of action was what Neon expected. After the latter rejected their demands, it launched a crackdown on its economy and other aspects.

Simply put, they were anxious.

White Eagle had discovered that the natives of that land had some incomprehensible abilities in those "savages", but because he could not really see that kind of power, although White Eagle had noticed it at the time, he ultimately regarded it as something the natives had done using poison or other means.

Those weak and inexplicable means could not resist their gunpowder weapons, and even the sharp blades of steel could not stop them. So what was the use of them being incomprehensible or even weird?
Later, White Eagle did try to find out more about this, but first of all, spells are not something that can be observed by ordinary people or electronic products. White Eagle, which was only established and rose in modern times, has no heritage in this area at all.

Naturally, they turned their few discoveries towards aliens. Later, because they could not produce any results from their research, the White Eagle Nation, which controlled everything as capital, gradually gave up on this bottomless pit of investment with no return at all.

Until... now that the existence of the curse has been confirmed.

Putting pressure on Japan and restarting once-abandoned projects are all turbulent and undercurrents are surging, both openly and secretly.

Turning our attention back to Neon, ever since the news of that "school" was revealed, countless students in junior and senior high school have been excited. Young people of this age, especially boys, are all interested in this so-called supernatural power.

From ordinary people to wealthy and powerful people, at this moment they all use their own channels and methods to try to find out any news about the strange world that has been hidden without a trace.

Anyone can see that the times have changed enough to overturn the past, and in the long river of history it is also a node of change that has not been seen in hundreds or thousands of years. No matter what the spell is, whether it is scientific or mysterious, all they have to do is to get on this high-speed train to the future as much as possible.

The people who are most likely to take this train are also generally considered to be the hope of the future, the underage teenagers. No matter where their children are educated, except for some people who are really at the bottom and have been completely brainwashed by capital and have lost their independent thinking, they basically have a great sense of identity with this kind of education. Therefore, what a school about supernatural powers means is very clear. No one can be sure what the gap will be between ordinary people and those sorcerers in that future.

If the Japanese authorities had not repeatedly emphasized that there is nothing "special" about sorcerers, and also given a statement that "everyone has the talent for sorcery, just to different levels", and at the same time carried out a lot of guidance.

Otherwise, the evolution of this emotion would have caused confusion among the public and triggered a series of problems. Of course, there are still problems now.

Countless people were pursuing the news of the "Magic School", and a group of lucky ones who had entered it before this wave officially emerged only now truly understood how lucky they were at that time.

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"First of all, the School of Curse will undoubtedly welcome more students. The disclosure of spells will inevitably lead to the emergence of people with spell skills. With our current teacher resources, we will not be able to support so many students in the future."

Shen Yuanyi stood at the intersection of the eyes of all the current high-level sorcery masters, and was introducing the upcoming situation and the next plan to everyone in detail.

"Teachers are also sorcerers, and most of them are sorcerers with good combat capabilities. After all, if you want the best teaching, then the teacher must also be an excellent sorcerer. However, such sorcerers cannot just teach students. Exorcising cursed spirits is also an indispensable job for them.

So we need more teachers, or reform the teaching model of spells. After all, spells are not the subjects of the present world, and the role that teachers can play is actually very limited, so I have a suggestion..."

"That is to relax the standards for teachers. We can have two types of teachers. One type is responsible for teaching the practical application of spells, including testing them in actual combat. The other type is for teaching theory and knowledge. This aspect does not require the strength of the teacher at all. Many auxiliary supervisors can also do this..."

Kamigawa Genichi put forward his proposal, and then everyone present began to discuss and put forward their own opinions. The Kamo family also put forward a more constructive proposal, which was to let the magicians of each family, including but not limited to the three major families, send some people to become teachers of Jugo.

Many people can see this very clearly. The publicization of sorcery has become a trend, and the explosive growth of sorcerers is an unstoppable fact. In the future, top sorcery forces like Kamo Zenin may be able to maintain their top advantages.

But overall, they are absolutely no match for the new generation of magicians who were born from ordinary people, and as time goes by, even the top combat power advantage may be lost.

After all, as long as the base number is large, there will always be a few freaks born. One is to strive for excellence and pursue elites from generation to generation, and the other is to cause qualitative change through quantitative change. Neither side can say who will have the final advantage, and it is likely that there will only be dynamic changes.

But that is looking at it from an overall scale of hundreds of years. If we put it on the scale of a "small" Kamo family, it is hard to say what the long history and ancient heritage will become.

If they are not careful, these so-called three great families may decline to the point where even their current reputation no longer exists, so finding another way and finding a way to keep pace with the changes of the times is something that they must do.

This proposal was made out of this consideration. On the surface, each family just volunteered to send someone to serve as a teacher at Zhugao, but there was actually another unspoken meaning.

That is, each family will contribute people, and what they pay for is not only people, but also some knowledge and secret skills of these ancient spell-casting families. Even if Shenyuanyi does not need it, or can use intimidation to achieve this goal.

But voluntarily handing it over will always be a good thing and save a lot of trouble, and it is not entirely a bad thing for a force like the Kamo family. If their own people go to Zhugao to be teachers, their reputation will inevitably spread. Imperceptibly, those students and future pillars will naturally have a good impression of the Kamo family. Not to mention how many people they can recruit, at least the Kamo family will gain a certain advantage in the future.

The people present were not fools. After the Kamo family made such a suggestion and Shenyuan agreed to consider it with a smile, even the Zenin family expressed their willingness to send someone out. All the ideas at this moment could go to hell.

Traditions can be preserved, celebrated, and used to constrain certain things, but if anyone thinks these ancient families will stick to them, they are very wrong.

"Okay, let's discuss the second matter, which is the protest from the Cabinet..."

(End of this chapter)