Alien world

Chapter 368 26. First Sight
"That's Annan's cat, you shouldn't have said that."

"I just told him it was a good opportunity."

Annan recovered from the conversation between Xian Na and Ai Xue, didn't say anything, and quietly watched their quarrel.

The woman came back quickly and reluctantly handed Lily to him.

"what happened?"

Lily let go and jumped into Annan's arms. Olin Montreal and Annan said, "It's your turn."

"I……"

Annan couldn't refuse the encouraging gaze from the deputy dean Boris, so he had to hand Lily to Alice first, and go out with the woman.

Passing through several corridors on the way to the gardens, the collection is the invisible line that separates the true nobility from the nouveau riche.Compared with many nobles, the Reeves family is considered to have a rich heritage. After selling so much, there is still some left, but it is completely incomparable to this manor... The collections placed in the corridor contain a sense of history. .

Annan saw a large oil painting on the wall.It was a radiant, beautiful maiden with a wide-brimmed hat, and a dead red dragon in the background.

Annan slowed down: "Is this you when you were young?"

"...This is the ancestor."

Well, no one is born that old... But seeing such a beautiful young girl in the oil painting now looks so old is really touching.

I continued to follow the woman, but I felt like she had become a little colder. Why?
Stepping out of the mansion and passing through a cold-resistant garden that still blooms in winter, Annan and Oline Montreal came to see their ancestors.

"What do you want from me?" Annan's respect for her was second only to Teacher Meier.

"It just reminds me of a friend. She is also a warlock..." The ancestor's ears suddenly seemed to be getting better.

"Is that warlock an elf?"

"What did you say?"

"No." Oline Montreal replied for the ancestor.

Annan grabbed the book on the table, rolled it into a paper tube and held it to the old woman's ear: "I said you were so beautiful when you were young!"

"That goes without saying." The old ancestor showed a naughty side.

After talking for a few words, the ancestor curled up in the couch and fell asleep, while Oline Montreal and Annan left quietly.

"The grandfather likes you very much."

"That goes without saying." Annan said proudly, "Do you know what people in the north call me?"

"how?"

"Northern succubus."

"Pfft..." Xian Na and Ai Xue's aunt, the strong lady recognized by the imperial capital, Olin Montreal didn't hold back her laughter. "Don't be like this in the empire, you will be laughed at..."

Succubus is not a good word.

After laughing, the relationship between her and Annan got closer.

"Why is a legend cursed with ears?" Annan asked puzzled.

"It's not that the ears were cursed, it's that the curse was weakened and only affected the ears... and the body." The ancestor was very happy today, which made Olin Montreal's mood improve. It was difficult to say more: "That's why the ancestor Over 200 years old, already aging like this."

Send Annan to the door of the restaurant, Olin Montreal did not go in again, let Annan tell them, just talk to the housekeeper or servant if you have anything to do.

"Don't you tell them?"

Olin Montreal, who had returned to her normal style, stepped on her leather boots and left without answering.

Annan walked into the restaurant and recounted what the woman had told her.

The vice president is going to register at the Etiquette Department of the Imperial Capital.

"I'm with you," Annan said.

Alice and Shana also wanted to follow, but the deputy dean Boris refused them.And the steward who learned that they were going into the city sent them a carriage directly.

The family emblem on the carriage can be seen in every department of the imperial capital—it represents the supreme existence of the Tatum Empire: the Montreal Gold Family.

Sitting on Boris seemed to float up, but Annan only felt that the velvet cushion was really soft.

Not long after driving out of the manor, Annan asked the groom to stop first, and ran to the roadside open space to open the portal.

Laila, who was dozing against the ogre with her fishing rod in her arms, woke up startled, and looked around the portal: "Where is the sea!"

"There is no sea, and there are no lakes and rivers." Annan answered before Leila asked, "Go and tell Eli Gravel to build a wheelchair for me to use later."

"I am your sister, how dare you order me?"

"I'll find out if there is a lake nearby for you in the past few days."

"I'll go right away." Laila ran away holding the fishing rod.

"Is there anything else?" the ogre asked, bowing his head.

"No more, uh... I just arrived in the imperial capital and temporarily live in a manor owned by the Montreal Gold Family."

After closing the portal, Annan returned to the carriage.

"That's... the portal?" The vice president's lips trembled.

"Ah."

"Your magic item?"

"No."

During the rest of the journey, the vice-dean was shaking like an epilepsy - because Boris suddenly realized that they could really bring the title of "Champion Warlock" back to Syltovis...

He stared at Annan with fiery eyes, and no words could describe his mood at the moment: "I...I love you!"

"Vice-principal, please respect yourself."

"What I mean is, you are the hero of Salis College!" Deputy Dean Boris said enthusiastically, "We will talk about each other from now on. You call me Vice President, and I call you Mr. Annan."

The real Boris didn't want to miss the opportunity to embrace the dragon's leg. A warlock who can open a portal at the age of 16 can become a legend at the age of 17, and he must not stab the gods from the kingdom of God?
"...No need to do that."

"I understand! You want me to take respect into my heart!"

Annan stopped talking nonsense and let Boris continue to flatter him.Maybe in the future, New Star Moon Bay's academy will be able to pull him over.

The imperial capital, which was far away in the morning, is getting closer and closer at this moment. Layers of buildings stretch around the mountain peak, like a tower reaching the sky.And the absence of city walls seems to be the confidence of the center of the Tatum Empire.

However, unlike Annan's imagination of pouring a pot of water on ten people, eleven of them are nobles, and there are rich people everywhere... Annan, who is close to the imperial capital, first saw an unusually dilapidated shack community in the lower urban area.

"How many people does the capital have?" Annan asked.

"Like a few million...?"

Should be more than that.This city is bigger than the Ratman's lair... at least tens of millions of people.

"Are there many poor people in Sturves?" Annan asked again.

"Of course not many, there are 'only' a few thousand people in the ghetto—"

A few percent of the poor is certainly not much.There is no harsh winter, and it is close to the Strait. People without diseases can survive with a little diligence.

That hut looks like it can accommodate thousands of people, and it seems that the imperial capital is in good condition?

At this time, the deputy director realized what Annan was saying: "We are a low-lying urban area, not a place where the poor live. Below the low-lying urban area, there is a bottom urban area."

"Where is it?"

The vice president pointed to his feet.

Through the velvet carpet covered in the carriage, Annan seemed to glimpse a dark city residing beneath the imperial capital.

(End of this chapter)