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Immune or not, these things are designed to instantly drain Will on contact. Not just the portion the Hierarchy usually takes from the millions of Octavii who form its foundation, either. All of your drive, your focus, your mental and physical energy, is funnelled away by these pale stone beds to be received by some distant, particularly favoured Septimus.
The only one who ever seemed interested in whether I was filling my own potential, rather than exceeding that of others.
Everyone in the Hierarchy knows about the Academy. The children of senators and knights are usually privately tutored, but some very few get to spend the last eighteen months of their childhood at Caten’s most prestigious institute. Being groomed for leadership, politics, the Senate. Catenan dignity and glory.
The Academy is the one place in all the Republic where ceding Will, or receiving it, is forbidden.
And the better you do there, the more choice you’ll have. Finish high enough, and you could be a Totius. Never have to cede Will at all.”
Ulciscor’s made the assumption—a reasonable one, given what I’ve said thus far—that I’m only intent on avoiding ceding any Will.
“Very few people’s Will comes from the Sappers.
“Religion’s mandate clearly encompasses education, and the Academy is their crown jewel. Military demanding access would be like Religion demanding control of the Seventh Legion. It’s simply not done.”
Military is not allowed in the academy, which is why vis is needed to be spy
Which means that an actual weapon from back then has the potential to be very, very dangerous.
“They say that young men know they will die, but only old men believe it.
