The Terrible News About the Ancient Demon

The Grand Natural Sciences Academy was an institution under the Royal Academician Committee of the Grand Duchy, a center for cultivating scientific scholars and talent.

Although Chen King had grand ambitions and once vowed to build a second academy that would serve the common people, the plan that countless people at the bottom of society had once desperately yearned for was indefinitely postponed, first by the invasion of ancient underground creatures, then by the arms race in disaster weapons with the Xilan Duchy.

The war between humanity and the ancient underground creatures was far more brutal than Reilo had imagined.

Today, after working nonstop for more than half a month, the Sky Fortress Celasto arrived at the Royal Science Committee.

He was not there to rest.

Because of the frequent wars with the Underground Creatures, the number of Royal Academicians in the Grand Duchy had fallen by a full quarter over the past year or so!

As a result, some duties that should have been handled by them had inevitably fallen to Celasto.

For example, the preliminary review of Extraordinary Scholar degree examination papers.

A thick stack of papers lay on the desk, along with fragments and evidence from ancient civilization ruins. Celasto casually flipped through the submissions.

As a preliminary reviewer, he had to sort through the papers. The pass rate was roughly one in four.

"Hmm!?"

Suddenly.

Celasto stared at an Extraordinary Scholar degree examination paper and let out a puzzled murmur.

The paper described the ruins of an exotic civilization called the Rotting Sand Tower United Kingdom. This was a new civilization site that had never been recorded by the Grand Royal Academician Committee, and the paper seemed quite thorough.

As was customary, Celasto would pass it through the preliminary review, but they would still need