AWCU Academy Grounds

The **Academy Grounds** is an area in Aether World Cosmic University. It's where the chosen students go to study and train, take classes that teach them ways how to defend people's dimensions, and leaning about the facts & weaknesses of their enemy's dark parallel dimensions. It also teaches an array of subjects that Earth's universities offer. There, the chosen students not only learn facts and skills, but about their classmate's dimensions, their culture, and thus deepen their bonds with each other.

## Description

The Academy Grounds is composed of two parts: Its entrance, and the building itself. The main gate has sculptures of men and women representing the arts and sciences, and after it was the main school garden in front of the main school building, flanked by pillars supporting beams. Each pillar is topped with a conical blue crystal. The building is so big it's easy for newcomers to get lost in it, and it has a map just in case. The towers are pencil-shaped, and the tips glow in the dark with either pale pink or green light. This helps the students find their way back to the Academy Grounds easily and safely.

### Interior

#### Main Hall

It's found in the silver building behind the dining hall and its surrounding classrooms. Where students and staff assemble, it is decorated with the school colours of midnight blue, white, and gold. The stage there has a projector screen, and sliding doors for students to enter. Above the doors, there are enchanted crystal screens that display the past achievements of the students that studied in AWCU. The depictions of these events are described as resembling stained glass, ancient art, and even Renaissance paintings.

#### Classrooms and Lecture Halls

*See also*: Classes

They are found in the pencil-shaped towers of the Academy grounds, along with some of the staff offices, computer rooms and laboratories. Many classrooms and lecture halls of the university share common traits such as real-live glowing universal stars on the ceiling and torches and gems that light up the classrooms. Some of the classrooms can seat up to 100, 500, or even 1000 students.

   The desk chairs in the classrooms are either designed like bleachers or are built on a pitched floor, such that those in the rear sit higher than those at the front, enabling the students to see the lecturer more clearly. The chestnut wood shelves found in the classrooms are where students can store their holographic textbooks. The podium has a microphone attached to it, and it's where the lecturer places his holographic textbook to read from. Aside from the subjects normally taught at an Earth university such as Harvard, subjects taught in AWCU include Cultures of Other Dimensions, Ethical Dimensional Philosophy, History of Aether World, Martial Arts Theory, and Magical Zoology, and many more. Variants of the classrooms include computer classrooms, science and medical classrooms and more.

#### Room of Peril

*See also*: Room of Peril

A holographic training facility where students can apply their knowledge and combat skills to practice after class lectures and Physical education. It has a control centre where the teacher can press buttons to make holograms of obstacles and enemies for the students to practice on. Its walls are made of adamant, so it cannot be damaged significantly.

#### Dining Hall

*See also:* AWCU Dining Hall

In the Dining Hall, there is a lunch table in the shape of a ring, with gaps to allow students to come and go. The chairs float too, like those in the library, and at the centre of the ring-shaped dining table, there is a map of the dimensions the students come from. The Dining Hall serves food from every dimension to the students.

#### Academy Gardens

In front of the library, exotic plants and herbs are grown in this garden. It is connected to the Dining Hall's back by a granite path.

#### Research and Development Lab

Near the Academy Grounds and the hospital, it is where the latest technologies are being developed. Explosions happen there frequently.

#### ArtHub

For budding students of the performing and visual arts. It is a combination of an art museum and a theatre. Art exhibitions and performances are common there, so it must be a noisy place.

#### Library

*See also:* AWCU Library

It's filled with books and magazines for every subject under the sun. It has electric light on the ceilings, floating chairs and reading tables (If you want to read in peace, just give the floating chairs and table directions, and they will fly there), clocks, and flaming torches for when blackouts occur. The books there can emit holograms to show the readers what's happening.

#### Principal's Office

*See also:* AWCU Principal's Office

King Athos's office that is modelled on Empyrean Castle's throne room. It is where the king gives announcements from, and where students meet him to either be rewarded or disciplined.

## Exterior

### The School Gardens

The School Gardens are divided into two main parts: The garden between the Main Gate and the main school building, and the garden between the Main Hall and the library. Students grow edible plants, as well as exotic plants from other dimensions.