"How do you think he'll do?"
Flame Demon Roarer Mie asked Chuback, who stood beside him.
Chuback knew exactly who he meant.
The anger and pressure he had endured over the past few days had already exceeded what he had experienced during most of his life. This oppressive feeling didn't come from anyone confronting him face-to-face. It came from the pressure he put on himself.
"After all, he's a guardian of the Academy Alliance's foundations of order, the only true Old Monster in the Academic World who knows how many years he's lived. Even Gauss, were he still alive, would have addressed him as a venerable senior. If even he can't do it, then the value of that ruin will probably remain difficult to confirm for some time. Under such fierce, dense Annihilation Thunder, even I could only take a fleeting glimpse from afar before I had to flee."
The ancient ruin did exist. Chuback had confirmed that much.
But in truth, the Academic World had unearthed quite a few relics of ancient civilizations. Those with real practical value, however, were few and far between. Most yielded nothing more than a fragment of historical records or an ancient work of art. Treasures like the Magic Eye and the Evil Holy Grail were exceedingly rare, let alone the scientific technology the Academic World yearned for most at this stage.
It was easy to understand, then, why the Academic World was so interested in those ancient Magic Eye Pyramids.
As the two of them knew,
the only ancient civilization ruin unearthed by the Academic World that had led to scientific and technological advances was the one discovered by the Frost Sorcerer, who had now gone deep into Annihilation Thunder Island. It was the Flying Device ruin of an Ice Age civilization, found