"Ahem...... I am the Emperor. Congratulations, I'll ask someone from the Etiquette Department to get you some gifts later. But one hundred and sixty colleges...... It's a waste of time to have you guys go down one by one, isn't it? ”

"Indeed." Annan whispered.

The vice-president was listening intently to the voices in the parchment, and only the officials of the Ministry of Ceremonies glanced at Annan, who was making a movement.

"Hmm...... I'm going to think of a good idea, a good idea, a time-saving idea, what idea......"

"Why are you so chattering?" Annan's ears seemed to be telling stories around three bards.

"Sorry...... I don't know how to use this stuff. The emperor seemed to answer Annan, "Have you heard of the nest?" I'm going to put the location at the bottom nest. You don't know about it, and that's fair...... Except for the Royal Academy of Magic in Montreal, so you can go and greet them. ”

"Anyway, they put some golden invitations in the bottom nest. Your task is to find it. "The ten houses that retrieve the most Golden Invitations will compete in the final Championship Tournament."

"The Ministry of Ceremonies is ready to send you down. Oh yes, the Bottom City people who get the Golden Invitation will get citizenship, so you'll be up against each other, but also the City Guys. ”

No more sound came from the parchment.

"Let's go."

The ceremonial officials tore open the magic scroll, revealing the solemn street of the ceremonial department on the other side of the portal.

Step through the portal and come from the manor to the imperial capital.

The wide street that passed through the disperse stood one hundred and sixty portals, which became noisy with the arrival of the academy's teachers and students.

Boris came back last night with the four academies that needed the most attention: the Agate Knight Academy, the Puddingburg Abbey, the Freya Sacred Academy, and the Royal Academy of Magic in Montreal in the imperial capital.

"How do they compare to the Sartovis Academy of Magic?"

"It's only a little better than the Sartovis Academy of Magic."

No matter how you say it, Sertovis is also the second largest city in the southern part of the empire, and it is not enough to swell to the point that Tovis Academy of Magic and Wizardry is not qualified to stand with them, but ......

"What does 'normal' mean?"

"It's just that there are no students like you."

The Salz Academy of Magic with Annan dared to reach out to the champion, and it is likely that these four academies also have such people.

Retracting his thoughts and gaze, Deputy Dean Boris was sternly telling the other seven contestants: "Your task is to protect Annan. ”

"Block the spell for him, and ...... too late Block it with your body, and it is unlikely that the imperial capital will cause you casualties. The vice dean gritted his teeth and said, "And pay attention to spiritual spells, such as the charm technique, if you find it—"

"I'll do this." Annan interrupted, and said under Alice's gaze, "Gifted warlocks are exempt from certain spiritual spells. ”

The head of the Ministry of Ceremonies was on the terrace, and the slender silhouette in the standard uniform added the rule: in addition to what the Emperor said, they would be randomly sent to the bottom nest and teleported at sunrise the next day.

One hundred and sixty small portals vanished, replaced by a large portal constructed by three epic mages in front of the main entrance of the Ministry of Ceremonies.

A blurry picture changes on the door.

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

Annan was so close to the portal that they couldn't identify their opponents, but Annan saw Freya's Holy Academy. They are all girls, with beautiful silhouettes and full of energy.

The feeling of vertigo appeared as he entered the portal, and before he could recover, Annan heard Theophelus complaining:

"Why do large teleportation arrays always get so dizzy......

"In the magic class, it was said that the large teleportation array was aimed at stability, but of course it wasn't that comfortable." His friend replied.

The restored Annan looked around. They stood on a low hill, the dark space stretching into the distance, and the distant light was sparsely lit, as if from morning to night, only the rock pillars that stood silently told that this was an underground city.

Luckily, they had a gathering place nearby.

Two other students were trapped in "portal vertigo", and when they recovered, Annan did not see any other students coming.

The nest is similar to the imperial capital on the surface, a three-dimensional city that can easily swallow their students.

"Where do we go next?"

They looked at the captain of the team.

"Didn't the young emperor say that the people of Dichao can also get a golden invitation, so let's approach the locals and inquire first."

The light of the illumination shone around the crowd, and some people looked up, but could not see anything. Only a long distance, a dull muffled sound that seemed to cover my ears lingered in my ears.

How deep are they?

The sound of footsteps stepping on gravel echoed, and before they could get close to the gathering place, a corpse that was almost decomposed into white bones suddenly appeared in front of it

The students living in the ivory tower stopped, and only Annan and Alice did not resist the bones.

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

Bypassing the bones of the exposed wilderness, the students approached the gathering place.

A layer of fog seemed to gradually rise all around, the halo of illumination became hazy, and an unpleasant bitterness appeared in the air. It wasn't until they approached the gathering place that the fog seemed to be blocked.

The gathering place they saw in the drums became jagged grottoes, and the glowing objects they saw became glowing fruits growing in the cracks of the grottoes.

Dense caverns that resemble spider nests huddle young mages together like quails.

"Don't be frightened by the words of the vice president, no matter how terrible the nest is, it is at the foot of the imperial capital, how can it be ......" Teophilus, who turned around, suddenly saw a strange face of defeat and screamed.

"Ahh

The screams echoed, and the surrounding caverns were awakened, and faces appeared.

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

The Succubus Curse was purified by the nosy Mr. Swaro before Annan and Alice set out for Sertovice, but it also allowed Annan to assimilate some powers, such as the ability to capture emotions, because it had been around for too long.

Before them was a clumsy, emaciated silhouette, covered with no hair or cloth, pale skin that looked tough, a flat nose, and eyes covered with a cloudy film.

This is the ...... of the "rat people"?

The groom's outrageous conjecture was actually correct...... In a few hundred years, the Bottom Nest will really degenerate into some kind of burrowing creature.

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

"Rat Man" utters broken syllables that no one understands.

"Who will be proficient in lingua franca?" Annan asked.

(End of chapter)