CH968 The Cradle
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Ordinarily, the academy would have sold off portions of the land under its ownership. However, the condition imposed by the Prince-turned-Chancellor when he granted the mountain range to the academy was that the land must remain the exclusive property of the institution and could never be sold.
As a result, the institution's leaders could only watch helplessly as their vast holdings remained beyond their reach, unable to utilise the land to save the academy from financial ruin.
Having become an obsolete institution in the grand scheme of the Empire, with hardly anyone paying attention to it, the previous leaders could do little more than wait for its eventual collapse.
Well, that was until the academy was acquired by a mysterious benefactor.
Naturally, the organisation behind the acquisition was none other than a collection of shell companies operating under the Golden Palace's portfolio holdings.
