In the White Griffon, like in all the six big academies, students from different years had no common spaces, to avoid the older and stronger seniors to haze their juniors.

This feat had been achieved simply by having each academic year take place on a single floor. On the ground floor of the castle, there was the welcome area for the visitors and the Secretariat, were clerks would take care of the academy’s paperwork.

The first floor accommodated the first year of academy, the second floor the second one, and so on.

Above the fifth floor there were the staff’s living quarters and their personal labs, but most of the space was noted on the map as either empty or assigned to nondescriptly named departments.

Lith suspected that all the academy’s private business, like the hidden specializations’ training courses, took place there.

In that moment, thought, while looking at the castle map with Soluspedia, Lith wasn’t wondering about the academy’s mysteries, rather he was cursing its faulty design.

– “Dammit! It’s no wonder that the Professors always move around with Warp Steps. I didn’t realize it at first, but even a single floor is like a small city, much bigger than the whole Lutia village.