Alien world

Chapter 371 29. Horror at the Bottom Nest
"Cough... I'm the emperor. Congratulations first, I'll ask the etiquette department to bring you some gifts later. But 160 colleges... It's a waste of time for you to compare one by one, isn't it?"

"Indeed." Annan whispered.

The deputy dean and the others were listening carefully to the voice on the parchment. Only the etiquette department official turned towards Annan who made the noise.

"Well... I want a good idea, a good idea, a time-saving idea, what kind of idea..."

"Why are you talking so much?" Annan seemed to be telling stories around three bards.

"Sorry... I'm not very good at using this thing." The emperor seemed to be replying to Annan, "Have you heard of the bottom nest? I plan to put the location in the bottom nest. You don't know it there, which is fair. …Except for the Royal Academy of Magic in Montreal, so you can go and say hello to them.”

"Anyway, they put some golden invitations in the Bottom Nest. Your mission is to find them." The ten academies that got back the most golden invitations will participate in the final championship competition. "

"The Ministry of Etiquette is ready to send you off. Oh, yes, the people from Dicheng who get the golden invitation letter will get citizenship, so your opponents are not only each other, but also people from Dicheng."

The parchment no longer made a sound.

"lets go."

Officials of the Ministry of Rituals tore open the magic scroll, and the solemn Avenue of the Ministry of Rituals appeared at the other end of the portal.

Through the portal, from the manor to the imperial capital.

160 portals stood in the wide, scattered streets, which became noisy with the arrival of the teachers and students of the Academy.

Boris came back from inquiring about the news last night and brought back the four academies that needed the most attention: Onyx Knight Academy, Pudinburg Abbey, Freya Sacred Academy, and the Royal Montreal Academy of Magic in the imperial capital.

"How do they compare to Stolves Academy of Magic?"

"Normally, it's only a little better than the Stowies School of Magic."

After all, Stoves is also the second largest city in the southern part of the empire, so it wouldn't expand to the point where Stoves Academy of Magic won't be qualified to stand with them, but...

"What do you mean by 'normal conditions'?"

"That's when there is no student like you."

The Salz Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which has Annan, dares to reach out to the champion, and these four academies probably also have such people.

Withdrawing his thoughts and eyes, Vice Dean Boris was sternly telling the other seven contestants: "Your mission is to protect Annan."

"If you want to block the spell for him, if you don't have time, then... use your body to block it. The emperor is unlikely to cause any casualties to you." The vice president gritted his teeth, "Also pay attention to spiritual spells, such as charm, if you find it, then--"

"I'll do it." Annan interrupted aloud, and said under Alice's gaze: "Talent warlocks can be exempt from certain spiritual spells."

The Minister of Etiquette is now on the terrace. This thin silhouette in standard clothing adds the rules: In addition to what the emperor said, they will also be randomly sent to the bottom nest and teleported out at sunrise the next day.

160 small portals disappeared, replaced by a large portal built by three epic mages in front of the main entrance of the etiquette department.

Blurry images appeared on the door.

The players entered the portal one after another according to the distance.

Annan and the others were relatively close to the portal, so they couldn't identify their opponents, but Annan saw Freya Sacred Academy.They are all girls, with beautiful silhouettes full of vitality.

The dizziness appeared as he stepped into the portal, and before he recovered, Annan heard Theophilus complaining:
"Why do the large teleportation arrays always get so dizzy..."

"The magic class said that the large teleportation array is aimed at stability, so of course it's not that comfortable." His friend replied.

The recovered Annan looked around.They stood on a low hill, the dark space extended to the distance, and the distance was lit with sparse light, as if it came from morning to night, only those standing rock pillars silently told that this was an underground city.

They are lucky, there is a gathering place nearby.

Two other students were stuck in "portal dizziness". When they recovered, Annan didn't see any other students descending.

The bottom nest is similar to the imperial capital on the surface. A city with a three-dimensional structure can easily swallow students like them.

"Where do we go first?"

They looked at the captain of the team.

"Didn't the young emperor say that people from the bottom of the nest can also get gold invitations? Let's get close to the locals first and find out."

The brilliance of the illumination technique sprinkled around everyone, some people raised their heads, but they couldn't see anything.Only the distant, dull muffled sound that seems to cover the ears lingers in the ears.

How deep are they?

The sound of footsteps stepping on the gravel echoed, before approaching the gathering place, a corpse that was almost rotting into white bones suddenly appeared in front of it
The students living in the ivory tower stopped, only Annan and Alice did not have any conflict with the bones.

"At least people here don't eat dead people." Annan said optimistically.

Bypassing the corpses of the exposed corpse wilderness, these students approached the gathering place.

There seemed to be a layer of fog gradually forming around, the halo of the illumination technique became hazy, and an unpleasant bitter taste appeared in the air.It wasn't until they approached the gathering place that the fog seemed to hold them out.

The gathering places they saw on the low hills turned into jagged grottoes, and the luminous objects they saw became fluorescent fruits growing in the gaps in the grottoes.

The dense caverns that resembled a spider's nest kept young mages huddled together like quails.

"Don't be frightened by the vice president's words. No matter how scary the bottom nest is, it's still at the foot of the imperial capital. How could it be..." Theophilus, who turned his head, suddenly saw a strange face of a disastrous defeat, and screamed.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

Amid the echoing screams, the surrounding caves were awakened, and faces appeared one after another.

No one noticed when the silhouette of Theophilus appeared. Alice had already raised her staff and was held down by Annan: "There is no malice, I can feel it."

The curse of the succubus was purified by the nosy Mr. Swallow before Annan and Alice set off for Sturves, but because it existed for too long, Annan assimilated some powers, such as being able to capture emotions.

What appeared in front of them was a stooped, thin silhouette, hairless and clothless, pale skin that looked tough, a flattened nose, and eyeballs covered with a cloudy film.

Is this the "rat man"...?
The horseman's outrageous conjecture was actually right... In a few hundred years, the Bottom Man will really degenerate into some kind of cave-dwelling creature.

Asking the others to step back, Annan asked the "rat man" who seemed to be frightened: "Can you understand me?"

"Rat Man" uttered broken syllables that no one could understand.

"Who is proficient in the lingua franca?" Annan asked.

(End of this chapter)