📌 Yandi University Features

• Open Admission: No restrictions on admission for both powered and ordinary people. Anyone can apply regardless of whether they have awakened abilities → Naturally creates a class/perspective gap between the powered and non-powered.

• Separation by Ability Grade: Admission is free, but classes and practical training are divided by ability grade (F to S). Even those with low grades can move to higher classes through effort — serving as a backdrop for social mobility narratives.

• Status-Transcending Zone: Within the school, the status of royalty, nobility, commoners, and outcasts is superficially ignored. However, it is an ironic structure where practical discrimination still exists through bribes, connections, and territoriality.

• Location: Western Region (Magic Academy)

• Professed Political Neutrality: Although it is an imperial institution, research into Revolutionary Army ideology is not superficially prohibited under the guise of "academic freedom" — in reality, it is a monitored gray zone.

• Multi-Species Coexistence: Humans, demi-humans, and even those with some monster blood can enroll, allowing inter-species conflict and friendship to coexist.

• Practical-Oriented Education: The weight of practical training is greater than theory, creating a tense campus culture where accidents, injuries, and dropouts are common during practice.

📌 Campus

Yandi University is not a single building; the Western Region itself effectively functions as a "University Special District." The campus encompasses an entire mountain and a lake, and is so vast that it cannot be toured on foot within a single day. Students and faculty move between towers via carriages or flying creatures (griffins, large avian monsters, etc.), and freshmen are even provided with a campus-only map and a guide monster. Since the region itself is the school, many civilians living in the West maintain their livelihoods through direct or indirect ties to the university (innkeeping, supply provision, monster material trading, etc.).

📌 The Six Towers System

The symbol and practical center of Yandi University are the six towers. Consisting of five elemental towers and a Central Tower dedicated by the Imperial Family, each tower operates like a small city with its own classrooms, training grounds, dormitories, and libraries.

• Tower of Light — Symbolizes purification, healing, and the holy attribute; deeply connected to the Yandi Faith. • Tower of Darkness — Symbolizes stealth, mentalism, and curses; subtly wary of due to the stigma of being a remnant of the Gani Faith. • Tower of Fire — Symbolizes offense and combat; notorious for having the highest accident rate. • Tower of Water — Symbolizes recovery, barriers, and fluid defense; adjacent to the lake. • Tower of Earth — Symbolizes defense, summoning, and the earth attribute; maintains the sturdiest architectural style. • Central Tower — Location of the Chancellor's office and the entrance to the Vault of Divine Legacies; accessible only to the highest grades.

The entire campus is protected by a legendary barrier said to be imbued with a portion of the gods' power.

📌 The Barrier

The entire school is surrounded by a massive ancient barrier, making the intrusion of external monsters fundamentally impossible. Legends say this barrier was created hundreds of years ago with a portion of the gods' power, and ominous rumors circulate within the school whenever the barrier weakens or wavers.

📌 Representative Families

🔥 Harzen Family (Tower of Fire) — A martial house that has produced the most talent for the Imperial Knights for generations. They value swordsmanship and practical combat; it is customary for children to be designated for the Tower of Fire as soon as they are born.

🌑 Kyren Family (Tower of Darkness) — Officially a fallen former noble house, but maintains influence by providing massive funds behind the scenes. They are the top priority for surveillance due to constant suspicions of links to the Gani Faith.

💧 Selvain Family (Tower of Water) — A prestigious family that has produced diplomats and healers for generations. Unlike their gentle image, they are famous for being the most adept at intelligence and networking politics.

🌍 Doren Family (Tower of Earth) — One of the oldest families, dating back to the founding of the Empire. They hold a monopoly on the secrets of barrier management, drawing checks from other families.

📌 Traditions

• Tower Competition: A competition between towers held annually during the Yandi Grand Festival. The prestige of each family is at stake, leading to psychological warfare more intense than actual combat. • Tower Entrance Ceremony: A ritual where freshmen are assigned to their respective towers. For children of noble families, it is a mere formality as their placement is already decided, but for commoners, it is a life-altering moment. • Head-Attended Graduation Banquet: A social gathering where the heads of prestigious families personally attend the graduation ceremony to offer scouts to outstanding graduates — effectively deciding their career paths. • Forbidden Tradition 'Yahap': An implicit tradition that taboos interaction between students of different towers, especially Light and Darkness. There are no official sanctions for breaking it, but one will be ostracized by both sides.

📌 Ability-Based Departments

Departments that require the possession of abilities to enter.

⚔️ Combat — Dept. of Melee Combat / Dept. of Magic Engineering / Dept. of Summoning / Dept. of Archery & Ranged Combat (Classes held in the Tower of Fire) 🛡️ Support — Dept. of Healing / Dept. of Barriers & Defense / Dept. of Mentalism (Avoided departments) 📚 Research — Dept. of Monsterology / Dept. of Ancient Texts / Dept. of Ethnology / Dept. of Theology (Politically sensitive) 🐉 Special — Dept. of Dragon Arts (Extremely difficult entry) / Dept. of Abyss (Tabooed) / Dept. of Dark Arts (Unofficial, rumored Gani Faith research) ⚙️ Practical — Dept. of Monster Processing / Knight Academy Preparatory / Dept. of Mercenaries & Entrepreneurs

📌 Departments by Tower

☀️ Tower of Light (Purification, Healing, Holy) • Dept. of Healing • Dept. of Theology

🌑 Tower of Darkness (Stealth, Mentalism, Curses) • Dept. of Mentalism • Dept. of Dark Arts (Unofficial)

🔥 Tower of Fire (Offense, Combat) • Dept. of Melee Combat • Dept. of Magic Engineering • Knight Academy Preparatory

💧 Tower of Water (Recovery, Barrier) • Dept. of Barriers & Defense • Dept. of Monster Processing

🌍 Tower of Earth (Defense, Summoning, Earth) • Dept. of Summoning • Dept. of Ethnology • Dept. of Archery & Ranged Combat

👑 Central Tower (Directly under the Imperial Family, Top-tier Special Courses) • Dept. of Dragon Arts (Extremely difficult entry) • Dept. of Abyss (Tabooed) • Dept. of Ancient Texts • Dept. of Monsterology • Dept. of Mercenaries & Entrepreneurs

📌 General Departments

1. Faculty of Liberal Arts • Grammar • Rhetoric • Logic • Arithmetic • Geometry • Astronomy • Music Theory

2. Faculty of Theology • Yandi Bible Studies • Dogmatics • Homiletics • Monastic Theology • Heresy Studies

3. Faculty of Law • Yandi Imperial Law • Trial Procedures • Contract Law • Inheritance Law

4. Faculty of Medicine • Anatomy • Herbology • Surgery • Internal Medicine • Humoral Theory • Infectious Disease Research • Hygiene

5. Others • Philosophy, Linguistics, Physics, Ethics, Metaphysics, History, Astronomical Observation, Astrology, Alchemy, Botany, Zoology, Mineralogy, Blacksmithing, Carpentry, Masonry, Architecture, Weaving, Shoemaking, Goldsmithing, Armor Making, Sword Making, Arrow Making, Glassblowing, Pottery, Shipbuilding, Navigation, Cartography, Commerce and Accounting, Brewing, Baking, etc.

There are many more.