Arrival

The vastness of the underground world was shocking, including Raymon.

Originally, Raymon understood the underground world as just a big cave, at most an extremely huge cave.

Even with crisscrossing passages, it was just big caves connecting small caves. At most, the area of this cave was larger than imagined.

But sitting in the carriage on the third day of the team's departure, Raymon's view was subverted.

After leaving the camp, Raymon found that everything here was very similar to the surface world except for no sun and no starlight as the carriages leaving for other colleges left.

There were plants, organisms, and occasionally birds could be seen flying over. The deepest feeling was the boundless wilderness.

Rivers, hills, mountains and even some villages formed by ordinary humans gathering together.

Various landscapes were almost the same as the surface world. The only thing that let Raymon know he was in the underground world was the result of the chip detecting the surrounding environment.

Because the atmospheric pressure here was very low, although it was impossible to confirm how deep underground it was, this was indeed the "underground world" in name and reality.

After witnessing the wild scenery for many days, Raymon gave up continuing to watch because the monotonous and boring journey could only see the places illuminated by the carriages. The distance was always hazy, as if shrouded in mist.

Therefore, after losing interest in the underground world at first, most of the teenagers on the carriages began to meditate and rest in their own compartments. Only Raymon could peek at these ferocious beasts hidden in the distance through the night vision function of the chip.

Unfortunately, the journey was very peaceful. I don't know if it was because Margaret was stationed. The entire convoy was shrouded in an inexplicable energy force field, and the entire convoy exuded a weak radiation breath.

Rebecca and Martina, who were in the same carriage with Raymon, also began to meditate one after another after getting bored with the scenery of the underground world and began to work hard.

Therefore, after being completely shocked by the vast underground world, Raymon took out his Wizard's Book again and started monotonous and tedious meditation every day.

But soon after Raymon meditated in the carriage, with the prompt of the chip, he found the difference between here and the surface world.

The energy particles contained in the underground world environment were not only higher in concentration than the surface world but also extremely violent in activity.

According to the chip's conclusion, the damage of energy particles in the underground world to the flesh was in no way comparable to that of the surface world. Even the radiation power permeating the air was much more serious.

So after Raymon allowed the chip to establish a discrimination task, he did not get an accurate conclusion from the chip until the third week of the journey.

The energy particles in the underground world environment, although the concentration factor would speed up the genetic transformation of meditators, also brought an abnormal increase in the rate of cell division in the body.

This meant that wizards in the underground world had to improve their lifespan through promotion; otherwise, the time of death would come much earlier than wizards living in the surface world.

The monotonous journey brought complete meditation devotion. After two full months of travel, as the convoy entered the Red Swamp, Raymon, who had been in the carriage all the time, finally memorized all 43 symbols.

And the 40 symbols that could be remembered by Raymon's chip had also been stored in the memory area of Raymon's brain. Unless Raymon wanted to completely erase this memory, he would never need to review these symbols again.

The Red Swamp Wizard Academy seemed to be located in the middle of a swamp full of red plants. There were swamps everywhere, and red substances would spurt upwards from many places from time to time, making everything in sight hazy as if shrouded in mist.

Because the line of sight was also blocked by the red mist, even the ferocious beasts pulling the carriages slowed down after entering this swamp. I don't know how the wagon drivers drove the fierce beasts, but this red swamp had many natural traps.

Because Raymon saw with his own eyes a creature similar to a moose. After being frightened by the roar of the beasts pulling the carriages, it drilled out of a bush. But it didn't run far before disappearing from Raymon's sight as soon as it stepped on a lawn and was swallowed up by this red swamp.

The changeable environment caused Raymon, who had entered the Red Swamp area, to stop continuing to meditate. To collect more information he climbed out of the carriage and sat next to the wagon driver.

Raymon originally wanted to chat with the wagon driver and learn about the Red Swamp. Still, the burly man with a silly smile directly opened his mouth to Raymon. Strangely, there was only half a tongue in the wagon driver's mouth.

To Raymon's surprise, after questioning, he finally learned through the wagon driver's gestures that these people who drove the carriages had their tongues cut off at a young age so that they could have the power to survive.

Without the possibility of communication, Raymon was different from the teenagers in the same carriage. So in this area of the Red Swamp, Raymon stored all the data collected through the chip.

Because Raymon deeply understood that this data might play an enormous role when he needed it.

As the convoy continued to move forward, on the third night of entering the Red Swamp, the Wizard Academy hidden in the thick fog finally appeared before Raymon's eyes.

Hidden in the red fog, the massive buildings like ancient European castles stood deep in the mist of the Red Swamp. Only a blood-red passageway about meters wide winding into it.

The carriages carrying the teenagers went straight through the first few large castles, passed two towering spires, and entered the depths of this building complex. The low croaking sound that could be heard before suddenly disappeared completely, making these buildings shrouded in light red fog look gloomy and terrifying.

As the carriages entered, the speed of the convoy shuttling through this building complex became slower. It took more than an hour to bring the teenagers to the gate of a small white castle.

Looking at the open white wooden door, Raymon frowned with a strong palpitation.