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Dean Avery Knight
Aliases
  • The dean 2
  • Dean Avery 13
Affiliation
  • Noren Academy dean 2
  • Noren Academy No. 147 dean 8
Age At least five thousand years, the length of the rest period that ends at Ch778 (estimate, as of Ch943) 2835
Wizard level Seventh-level wizard 2
Status Alive 35
First appearance Ch591

The seventh-level wizard who founded and runs the Noren Academy on Elosia, later Noren Academy No. 147.2828 Rarely seen because he earns Star Orbit Tribunal tasks at the front, he is the patron who shadows Jie Ming, supplies his plane origin, recruits him as a mentor and sets the Workshop's "Stall" strategy for the coordinated war.246817 After a five-thousand-year rest he returns to the front, then comes back to announce the Wonder and the education reform.28303133

Relationships

  • Jie Ming: Protégé; shadows him for two years, supplies plane origin, recruits him as mentor and later as builder of the admissions system; assigns him the garrison.482834
  • David Colmar: Shadowed alongside Jie Ming; co-rewarded for the parallel-world discovery.422
  • Viola: Assigned garrison duty with Jie Ming.28
  • Wizard Broadleaf: Old friend to whom he recommends Jie Ming.24
  • Wizard Noren: Receives his report on the parallel civilization.22
  • Carl: Rated near an elite seventh-level and weighed for a Mentor.35
  • Anita Chack: Left off his graduation list.11

Background

Black-robed with a seven-star badge at his reveal, later in pure white or deep blue, with deep brown eyes; his presence stalls a plane's elements.32023 Absent from the academy for years because front-line Star Orbit Tribunal tasks are the only source of high-level military merit.2 His first expedition as dean takes a plane of more than a dozen eighth-level natural-born gods and merges it into the Elosia cluster.8 Founding the academy halved his ten-thousand-year mandatory rest to five thousand.28

Abilities

Ability Acquired Notes
Wizard level Ch722 Seventh-level, the academy's only one.2
Spatial control Ch2333 Holds a collapsing spatial vortex open bare-handed.3
Presence masking Ch2344 Hides every gathered high-level wizard from the Sage.4
Soul power Ch2344 Beats the eighth-level Demon God of Destruction through the gate and drags it out; tens of thousands of soul seals contain its self-detonation; seals the remains in a soul-power crystal.45
Plane origin extraction Ch2355 Extracts single-law origin personally; grants ten strands under equivalent exchange and sends nine more.68
Private plane collection Ch28610 Supplies the first graduation trial ground.10
Consciousness scan Ch77727 Appears to law-sight as a sky-covering eye of law runes.27

Timeline

  • Ch59-72: Absent dean, left the trial's resource problems; the academy's sole seventh-level.12
  • Ch233-237: Reveals himself after two years shadowing Jie Ming and David, defeats the Demon God, offers plane origin and leaves to conquer its plane.3467
  • Ch280-292: Returns with the gods' plane, invites Jie Ming to teach at Noren Academy No. 147, leads the cluster integration, runs the first graduation trial and approves Jie Ming's handover.89101112
  • Ch325-327: Releases the elites and renames Elosia Noren Plane No. 147.1314
  • Ch383: Learns from Jie Ming that Anton Buchanan has reached the eighth level.15
  • Ch464-465: Opens the pre-war meeting and proclaims the strategy "Stall".1617
  • Ch587-593: Recruits Jie Ming as stand-in alchemy teacher; at Noren Plane No. 1 reveals the parallel wizard civilization found through the Sage's spoils.1819202122
  • Ch708-726: Brings four seventh-level wizards to the Tentacle Tree plane during his rest, sets the Reflection Dimension catch rule and prefabricates plane arrays.23242526
  • Ch778-779: Ends his five-thousand-year rest, assigns garrison duty to Jie Ming and Viola, and leaves without ceremony.2829
  • Ch837-841: Returns after centuries at the front, announces the Wonder and asks all sixth-level-plus wizards to gather at the Academy in a thousand years.303132
  • Ch858-859: Announces the education reform and assigns Jie Ming the admissions system.3334
  • Ch943: Approves resettling Jack's-plane humans and rates Carl.35

  1. Chapter 59: High-Level Wizards ↩↩

  2. Chapter 72: The Needs of Wizards ↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩

  3. Chapter 233: Delivered to the Door ↩↩↩↩

  4. Chapter 234: So We Are the Villains After All? ↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩

  5. Chapter 235: The Reward ↩↩

  6. Chapters 235-236 ↩↩↩

  7. Chapter 237: The Final Step ↩

  8. Chapter 280: Academy ↩↩↩↩↩↩↩

  9. Chapter 283: Recruitment and Mobilization ↩

  10. Chapter 286: Tasks and Project Completion ↩↩↩

  11. Chapter 289: Crimson Gold and Graduation ↩↩

  12. Chapter 292: The Nest and the New Expedition ↩

  13. Chapter 325: Noren Plane No. 147 ↩↩

  14. Chapter 327: Nascent Soul Realm ↩

  15. Chapter 383: Research, Advancement and the New Prowler ↩

  16. Chapter 464: The Meeting ↩

  17. Chapter 465: Teleportation ↩↩

  18. Chapter 587: Researching Molten Mountain and a Sudden Request ↩

  19. Chapter 590: Imperial Flow Paste and Five Years ↩

  20. Chapter 591: Huh? Us? ↩↩

  21. Chapter 592: Parallel Worlds ↩

  22. Chapter 593: Mentor and Departure ↩↩↩

  23. Chapter 708: Reinforcements ↩↩

  24. Chapter 710: New Mission ↩↩

  25. Chapter 711: A New Magic Technique and Departure ↩

  26. Chapter 726: Emerging from Seclusion and Emerging from Seclusion ↩

  27. Chapter 777: The True Body, and an Overload ↩↩

  28. Chapter 778: The Time Lag, and the Meeting ↩↩↩↩↩↩↩

  29. Chapter 779: An Old Friend ↩

  30. Chapter 837: The Dean’s Return ↩↩

  31. Chapter 840: Five Years and a Wonder ↩↩

  32. Chapter 841: The Wonder, Part Two ↩

  33. Chapter 858: The New Education Reform ↩↩

  34. Chapter 859: The New Education Reform, Part Two ↩↩

  35. Chapter 943: Post-War Arrangements, a New Goal ↩↩↩↩