Ruins Employment

"It wasn't me. It was my teacher, Chairman Robert!"

Gallon took out an envelope.

It bore Robert Kava's red seal.

Ever since Robert had advanced to the Second Ring, the two had never met again. The gap in their levels of life had practically doomed them to have no further intersection.

Yin Ming accepted the envelope and asked suspiciously, "What does Chairman Robert want with me?"

Having completed his delivery, Gallon remained where he was and pointed at the envelope. "Scholar Eno, wouldn't you know if you opened it?"

"True!" Yin Ming nodded and opened the envelope, beginning to read it carefully.

This time, Robert Kava had not sent the letter in a private capacity, but as the chairman of the scholars' Ember Building.

It summoned all scholars of the Flame-Burners Association. Not only did the envelope bear the chairman's red seal, but even the letter's format was exceptionally formal. Skipping over the brief formalities at the beginning, Yin Ming quickly reached the main point.

[Landon Duchy Year 223, January 12: A minor earthquake occurred in the Lansya Region, and a landslide revealed a strange structure. After extraordinary individuals arrived, they discovered it was an Ancient Ruins.]

[After several months of excavation, the outer perimeter was finally cleared. Lost writings from numerous extraordinary civilizations, including alchemy, the gods, and kingdoms, were discovered. It has been assessed as possessing extremely high excavation value.]

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"Ruins! The Lansya Region? It isn't within the Landon Duchy?"

Yin Ming had memorized the names of most duchies, as well as the cities within the Landon Duchy, but he knew absolutely nothing about other places.

It was not that he had been too lazy to remember. There simply were no relevant books to be found. Ordinary people did not travel that far, and even more detailed