-Bang! Bang!

-ZUUUUUUUUUUP!

I’ve done it a few times in the past but riding these creatures is still not an easy thing.

They are so fast... haaaa.

It was one thing to see the ground from a high up place, but simply seeing moving lines below you when you are moving faster than the winds was a completely different experience.

We were on a faraway island a few hours ago and now... and now we have entered the periphery of the Epic mountains that house the great Stanox.

"Haaaa..."

I have been thinking about how it would feel to be here ever since I regressed to the past.

I wanted to experience a bunch of different things now that I was a tamer in Stanox. I wanted to experience how it would feel to be someone who was working for the advancements of knowledge in the world.

’An academic scholar was one thing, but being an academic center figure was a different kind of honor.’

There are different rankings in the academy and you have to go through tests to determine the level that you start at as well as to advance to the further levels.

And while one’s inability to tame beasts may constitute an unfair seeming class difference, the academy has created different ways for one to prove their worth.

’That is the reason someone like me who could not even tame beasts was able to reach the rank of a Professor in the past.’

The academy is brutal and fair. It is dangerous and at the same time, rewarding enough for one to endure all the hardships that they go through.

The Great Summit of Knowledge, Experience, and Hope.

"We have arrived."

A giant mountain surrounded by different biomes, its base covered in trees, situated in the middle of a dense forest filled with all kinds of beasts, having a ’will’ of its own, the great academy became visible as we suddenly slowed down in the sky.

-Swiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiish.

-Swash... swash...

The giant deaconic beast danced its powerful wings, creating strong guests of wind that disturbed the clouds above us.

In the front, with its top piercing the very sky, the great mountain stood as the testament of mortality’s potential.

’We carved out a world inside a cave.’

There are many myths regarding the divine presence in this world but, the story of the origin of the academy stands as the single most testament of humane emotions.

’It all started when the [First People], beings who were more than a beast but far less than a human, settled in a mountain surrounded by a forest.’

They were beings born in this very forest and they came to call this mountain, instead of the forest, their home.

They carved the mountains and made houses inside of it.

As their population grew, these houses grew as well.

The First People continued carving deeper and deeper inside the mountain, and some of them, while unaware of the ways of nature, developed distinct powers.

’Magic came last. The first thing those beings learned was to use tools as weapons.’

Through hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, the beings who only knew how to use stone weapons and the abilities of the beasts of nature grew up to develop languages, weapon arts, and even magic.

They spread across the world, leaving this single place as their origin, and to the beings who left, these mountains were unreachable for several millenia.

’But it was never forgotten.’

People, as they had become, developed means to tame creatures who could bring them back to their homes.

And, when they came back, they found that the place that their ancestors had left to a few, had grown further, becoming a place that had more than just a few people.

’With the knowledge and truths brought from the outside world, the descendants of the First People grew the mountain further, making it a place where they could teach the younger generation.’

In the midst of power struggles between the strong and the stronger, an oath was taken by the people who held the most power over the people and the beasts: This world is our home.

’When translated from some of the oldest known scripts, Stanox comes to mean Home.’

There were other places in the world where the First People grew up to be different beings.

Some became humans, some became elves, some became dwarves, and some took up the more beastly appearance and became the beastfolk or merfolk.

The world changed, evolved, was destroyed, and by the might of those who held the divine powers, the world was made anew.

’We don’t know how much of this Genesis story is true, but there surely are several inconsistencies in it.’

We have never found the true records of the beginning of the world, so, we must assume it was something ’positive’.

It would be considered a paradox that way, but then again...

"Meow..."

"Chirp..."

"Miii..."

The kitten, the bird, and the Salamander, all three of them could not help but gasp at this giant mountain.

We do not have to go inside to see the majesty of this place: the grand observatories built on the surface, the certain facilities made for the beasts all across the mountain, the castles and estates belonging to the teachers and students, the outside of the mountain alone should have a population of over a million right now.

Along with the people who should be present inside the mountain, we should be talking about tens of millions of people and hundreds of millions of beasts.

And that was the mountain: the forest surrounding the mountain was a different story altogether.

’We call Stanox a unique world not because this entire mountain holds that one particular academy.’

It is because the true domain of the academy expands all the way to the forest as well, making it the biggest learning institute of this world as well as the central authority of knowledge and development.

’There are schools of taming here, schools of martial arts, the schools of weapon arts, as well as the Scientific Schools of Art that includes subjects that are artistic and unique in themselves.’

Essentially, one can learn anything one desires in this place. At the very least, with the right will and the right attitude, they can stand on the same level as those who possess talent, resources, or the blessings from the gods themselves.

"We have arrived."

This is Stanox.

’This is my first home.’

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