Finally.
A day later, under the guidance of a guardian known as Little Night Serenade, Reilo arrived at what Hei'erwen Academy called its relay outpost.
It was a tiny Eye of the Storm, barely two or three hundred meters in diameter.
There were quite a few such miniature Eyes of the Storm.
Unfortunately, with so little room to live, these miniature Eyes could only serve as shelters or small islands along trade routes. The Grand Natural Sciences Academy also controlled more than a dozen of them nearby.
The two entered the miniature Eye without difficulty.
A small plaza had been built inside, surrounded by several quaint buildings. The barrier energy rippling over them was impossible to conceal.
"Dean!"
A female scholar wearing a black cloak stood before them.
Even the oversized cloak could not hide her graceful, slender figure. The instant Reilo and Little Night Serenade entered the Eye, she fixed her gaze on Reilo.
"Mm."
As the two landed, the female dean answered and motioned for Little Night Serenade to stand behind her.
More than a dozen highly trained senior guardians streamed out of the surrounding buildings in perfect formation, all fixing their eyes on Reilo in the plaza.
"Heh. Aren't you afraid?"
The Wasteland Guardian looked down at Reilo with an air of arrogant disdain.
"I've completely sealed the barrier. You can't escape. Tell me who you are—this is your last chance. My children are hungry."
As she spoke, a finger slowly emerged from beneath the woman's black cloak.
What happened next made Reilo's eyelids twitch.
The skin of the finger, which had been pale and slender, split open like a flower petal. Beneath it, bloody tissue writhed, then—puff, puff, puff—spat out a swarm of hideous miniature Killer Bees.
An ordinary scholar would have taken this for some