The impact of the Cyclops's demonstration was immediately apparent.
In just three days, the number of course inquiries for the New Western Education Group that month quadrupled.
The consultation booths in the main hall were operating nonstop, with apprentices lining up all the way to the street corner. In particular, "Introduction to Alchemy" and "Fundamentals of Golem Construction"—two courses that weren't originally very popular—were fully booked within half a day.
One particularly sharp-witted Level 1 instructor even stayed up all night to handwrite a lesson plan, hastily creating a new elective called "Appreciation of High-Level Golems and an Overview of Alchemy."
Priced at fifteen Low-Level Magic Stones per session, every class was sold out. He lectured passionately from the stage, analyzing the technical difficulty of the Cyclops, while two hundred apprentices below took notes until their hands cramped.
「Three days later, on the top floor of New Western.」
