Atwood Academy

An institute of learning on Port Atwood run by Alyn.

"After asking he realized it wasn’t like a school on the old earth, but rather to help the students to get a class they wished for and guide them with their cultivation." **Chapter 73**

"That wasn’t all, [Alyn] had even gotten a hold of a tool that could best be described as a grenade. It was a small inscription powered by a single Nexus Crystal that exploded in a concussion wave when thrown. It would blast away any unaware person, though not dealing any real damage. She used it any time she felt someone was lazing about. Worse yet, Zac learned that the cost of the bomb came out of the pockets of the one she attacked." **Chapter 129**

## Facilities

"The academy had changed quite a bit the past weeks, forming a compound of its own. Before it had simply been a large field of gravel where the Valkyries trained, but now it felt like a real place of learning.

There were over ten structures that held either classrooms or training facilities, and the large training field had been turned into five fields, each with different settings for the gravity array. He was planning on taking a tour but stopped when he passed the field with the lowest gravity boost." **Chapter 203**

The whole campus had grown by over ten times since its inception, and it had almost turned into a city within a city with blocks of student housing, whole parks, and large courtyards where the professors stayed. There were almost a hundred thousand students enrolled by this point, of which roughly 20% were ‘exchange students’ from various subsidiary forces on Earth.

It wasn’t much compared to the largest alliances on Earth, but Zac still focused on quality over quantity for his Academy. For those less talented there were the city guards, the army, or various enterprises of his that needed cultivators. For example, there were thousands of cultivators who worked in the mine, clearing out the wildlife as they dug deeper and deeper. **Chapter 681**

## Staff

Headmistress

* Alyn Azh’Rezak

Teaching staff

* Hekruv Vira
* “We have also found a few islanders who were teachers before your world got integrated, and we are currently teaching them a revised curriculum along with the children. Within a year we will have operations running for children between 6 and 18.” **Chapter 203**
* Most of those members of the former True Sky Faction who chose to remain took up positions at the Atwood Academy, splitting their time between cultivation and research. **Chapter 660**

## Notable Students and Graduates

* Emily
* Atwood Valkyries
* Lily
* Carl
* Logan
	+ He had similar attributes to Carl and a High Seed, but he was still unable to properly hunt any higher than the 8th layer of the Taboo Mountain of the Earth Mystic Realm (**Chapter 639**).

## Resources

* Upgraded Small Scale Gravity Array (**Chapter 123**)
* *A Flower of Fire and Ice* (**Chapter 298**)
	+ "*If you hang it in your home you will not only raise the grade of your interiors by multiple levels but meditating on this picture will even help improve elemental Daos*" C**hapter 288**
	+ "*...it can help one to improve Elemental Dao. I think it is especially effective for Dao related to Fire and Ice since they were the main paths the Lord of Cycles took.*" **Chapter 298**
* After conquering the Underworld, Zac gave 10% of the Union to Academy to make it self-sustaining. **Chapter 329**

## Blackwood College

* Blackwood College was one of Elysium's elite training grounds and where many of the martially endowed Revenants ended up after their six-month general orientation. **Ch 1,177**
* Orientation would normally last three full years to provide better foundations and give them (Awakened) more time to find themselves. That wasn't possible with Zecia's current situation. They had no choice but to accelerate the process so the awakened could graduate to military training camps, factories, or the many other departments that screamed for manpower. Only those displaying the greatest potential could continue their studies in elite institutions such as the Blackwood College or the Atwood Academy. **Ch 1,177**

### Staff

* Headmistress
	+ Pika Blackwood
* Instructors
	+ Dwayne

### Notable Students

* Echelon Class
* Max

### Resources

Sword Plateau

* It resembled a large sparring platform in the woods behind the main building. Three array pillars surrounded it, each emitting sharp auras. **Ch 1,177**
* It was a training array that could conjure large numbers of flying swords that would attack anyone atop the platform. You could meet the onslaught alone or in the group, and you could train anything from battle technique to evasion within. Since the arrays were made based on the Dao of Swords, cultivators could also search for inspiration in the heat of battle. **Ch 1,177**