Chapter 398 - 390. Testing the Darkness
"An academy?" Han Shin raised his brow, quickly following Zein and walking toward the outer building. "You’re not going to use it for your clan’s headquarters?"
"Why would I do that?" Zein replied. "We have the house that my father built in the industrial complex. I would rather build another building there if I want a bigger clan house."
"Or the lakeside," Bassena added, to which Zein nodded in agreement.
"Besides, it’s better in the public eyes," Logan said. "Using this place for an institution rather than a private use--not even those people outside would have any justification to continue their protest."
Zein nodded in satisfaction. With the connection to the Old Houses’ patriarchs that he gained recently, it wouldn’t be hard to get a licensing. He had heard that a lot of people grew a massive interest in combat guides after the success of Trinity’s program. Other guilds had been asking for cooperation to teach their own guides, although Radia politely declined using the reclamation project as a reason.
"I planned to talk to the Temple too," Zein said. The council of elder priests had been trying to contact him ever since his Saint candidacy, but he had been...let’s just say he had been too busy to accept their call. "The academy will also teach guides in active duty, aside from the newly awakeners."
"Oh, that’s a trade," Han Shin snapped his fingers. "Will you have the time to establish it, though? I mean...before the Deathzone?"
Zein exhaled slowly. "Haa...I don’t know about this," he chuckled. "I’ll have to beg Radia to lend me Nadine and some kids as mentors."
"Eh, as long as the price is right," Bassena shrugged, and they continued their inspection while chuckling at the challenge further down the road.
But the place was indeed suitable for an academy. The outer building, which consisted of small housing for the servants and guards, could be turned into a dormitory and clinics for practices. The guide’s education didn’t need a lot of places; just a classroom for theory, and clinics for practice.
Combat guides, however, needed more physical training areas. And simulation chamber too, if they had the funds. Perhaps in the future. "It’s good that this place had its own training area, isn’t it?" Senan commented as he looked at the blueprint of the compound. "Gyms and all that--complete with a basement."