Miskatonic University, recognized by all Old Kings as the "foremost institution of learning,"
enjoyed the right of spatial transmission across the entire universe—to all cities, from small to large holdings, neutral cities, and even villages, nests, and the like with spatial reception facilities.
Associate Professors like Han Dong enjoyed free transmission privileges.
"Nicholas, aren't we directly teleporting to the Zothique Continent? Miskatonic University happens to have a specialized Teleportation Array... If we want to enter Zothique from the outside, the process will be rather complicated."
"Mm, we'll first go to a nearby port city and follow the usual procedure to the Zothique Continent.
The main reason is that I don't want to directly reveal that we came from Miskatonic University, nor my identity... Because of certain past matters, M.O. and I have a 'minor conflict.'
If I directly rely on my status as an Associate Professor to teleport there and meet him, it would seem quite disrespectful.
M.O. might not do anything to us because of Miskatonic University, but cooperation would become very difficult to negotiate.
Besides, another 'traveler' will be joining our group. We need to meet up with him outside."
Sally frowned. "Who? Green or Popper?"
"Neither. You'll find out when the time comes."
The Arabian Peninsula
In a remote, deserted corner of the desert stood a peculiar port city—The-Nameless-City.
Rather than saying it had been built there, it was more accurate to say that it had surfaced from the sea and directly joined onto the edge of the desert.
Anything involving a "port" was inevitably inseparable from the deep sea...
The beings in the deep sea managed port cities across the world and even throughout the universe,
providing transportation services—and charging corresponding fees—for Abyssal Demons wishing to cross the ocean and travel to forbidden lands or hidden