Chapter 123 The World Under the Abyss

Translator: SumTLMan

There are very few talented people this year, so the comments will soon be over.

At the end of the comments, of course, the Wizards are no longer invisible. Their time is precious, so they appeared one after another. It’s just that when they showed up, they didn’t stay where they were, but just flew away. Only the grey-haired old man named Nisi fell from mid-air and landed in front of the talents.

The sudden appearance of the Wizard Lord startled everyone. All started staring at the old man in mid-air not far away. Why did the Wizard Lord come from there? Could it be that the Wizard Lord has been hiding away just to observe their reactions?

This conjecture was soon proven by Nisi.

“Previously, we were invisible only to observe the nature of your mind. Your performance has been recorded in your own records. Whether it is good or bad. You should be very clear about it.” Nisi landed in front of the crowd while everyone held an expression of wonder.

At the same time, they remembered what Angel had said earlier. But there was something about the way he said it. He was obviously hinting at the present situation.

“I’m the leader for this session, everyone follows me…” Old man Nisi looked at the crowd and smiled strangely. “Before we go, I’ll give you all a piece of advice. Wherever I go, you must follow,” he said. “If anyone doesn’t obey, I’ll immediately bury them here. Paramjit Plateau was never short of bones.”

The talents felt somewhat baffled at Nisi’s warning, thinking: We are unfamiliar with this place. If we don’t follow you, where would we run around?

But when they saw Nisi walking towards a pit a hundred meters away, everyone suddenly had a bad feeling in their hearts.

The bottomless pit stretched for an unknown number of miles across in front of them. When they came near, they looked down and could not see the bottom at all. There were only an endless depth and deep darkness.

This abyss-like pit, like a huge mouth ready to devour people. The scene before everyone was terrifying. Which made propel in the group cannot help but tremble.

Suddenly, Nisi, who was walking at the front of the group, gave a penetrating smile and said, “The destination is ahead. Follow me and do not fall behind.”

After saying this, Nisi jumped directly into the abyss-like pit while the entire group gave expressions of panic.

Seeing at this scene, everyone looked at each other at a loss for a moment.

“A group of cowards, not even one person has courage, all of you should die here.” Hookedick took the lead and jumped down to follow Nisi while laughing out loud.

After Hookedick disappeared, Nausica spat out a smoke ring. She poured out the tobacco in her pipe, squeezed her pipe tight and smiled at Angel before saying: “I’m going first.”

Nausica also plunged into the abyss.

Angel looked at Shalem next to him. He thought the 13-year-old might be afraid, but Shalem’s face held no fear. He just carefully fastened his book into his pack.

“Come on, that Wizard Lord told us not to fall behind. There must be a reason for saying that.” Angel patted Shalem on the shoulder and jumped.

After the first jump, everyone joined one by one in jumping into the pit. The other talents, even in fear, clenched their teeth and jumped into the pit one by one.

As Angel fell on his vertical freefall, he felt the intense cold wind fiercely beating on his face. On both sides of the pit are dark and secluded earth and stone walls. In front of him is endless darkness where Angel can vaguely smell a sense of death.

After falling for about two minutes, Angel suddenly saw a bright light below.

As the light appeared, Angel clearly felt that his free fall began to slow down. As if there was a gentle opposing wind flow rising from below. Soon, he reached the threshold of the opposing current below. When the current became more abundant, all the talents had landed leisurely like feathers falling.

When Angel landed at the source of the light, there was a huge mirror.

To be exact, it was a world under a large mirror surface that was the source of the light.

Nisi stood on the mirror’s surface. He was holding his slightly hunched body up with a cane in his hand.

As the talents slowly landed, they all stood on top of the mirror’s surface.

Angel curiously touched the surface of the mirror. It felt cold and frictionless, like ice or glass. The mirror surface is transparent, and one can clearly see the world behind this mirror.

It had heaven had earth. There were mountains, water, sunshine, clouds, and towering buildings with steel cableways.

What is this world under the surface of this mirror? Is it another plane? Or a world similar to a cave in the sky he’s read in those Earth novels? Not only Angel was curious, but all the talents looked at Nisi with questioning eyes. Hoping to draw an answer from Nisi’s mouth.

Nisi coughed twice: “This is the Savage Grottoes…”

Nisi stretched out his cane and gently knocked the mirror surface as ripples slowly dispersed. Then, there suddenly was a fierce light that shone on the surrounding walls. Everyone began to take notice of the walls around the pit. —

There were many openings, countless walls, and all kinds of magical steel structures. Numerous people are working while travelling back and forth on the road. Some went through holes, some began collecting plants on the walls, and some just looked at them curiously.

“We are very close to the Shadow Demon Kingdom. There are hundreds of towns built around the Savage Grottoes, and the people on the walls are from the nearby towns.” Nisi paused to say: “By the way, the Shadow Demon Kingdom is also known as the Land of the Earth’s Heart. Although the people here are also humans, most of them live underground, rarely ever needing to return to the surface. This is a unique feature of the Shadow Demon Kingdom. You will all have plenty of time to explore it in the future.”

After saying this, Nisi pointed his cane at the world under the mirror’s surface.

“Under the Mirror Plane is the headquarters of the Savage Grottoes. You will all live here except for some particular people in the future.” Nisi throws out ten circular concave-convex Bone Cards. Each circled in the air and flew to their respective talent.

“These are order Bone Cards for entering the next door. If you lose it, you will never be able to enter the Mirror Plane world again. This Bone Card has your identity information and comments. As long as you don’t leave the Savage Grottoes, it will stay with you for the rest of your stay here. Remember, after entering the Savage Grottoes, take this Bone Card to Tree Spirit Jero as soon as possible. He will enter your new information for you.”

As for what information was going to be entered, Nisi did not say.

After the explanation, Nisi tapped the Mirror Plane three times in a row with his cane, and a misty figure emerged from the Mirror Plane.

“Who’s disturbing this old lady’s rest?” The white fog eventually turned into a woman’s figure, but the figure was still a hazy fog. One could not make out the details clearly: “Do you not know that you are ruining this old woman’s beauty rest? If you don’t give me an explanation, I’ll eat you!”

With the white fog woman’s hysterical cry, Nisi gave two slightly embarrassed “coughs.” Only to call back the White Fog woman’s attention.

“Oh, it’s you, kid. I heard you went to pick up the talents…” The white fog woman turned and “looked” in the direction of the talents.

“Why are there only ten people this year…? Oh, I almost forgot. That boy Sanders went to recruit the talents. Ten people are pretty good then.” The white fog woman paused, and her “head” moved slightly as if to observe something.

“Well, not only are there few people, but they are all ‘crooked melons and cracked dates’… Except for that golden-haired boy. He is good-looking. Everyone else is ugly until death.”

In the whole group of talents, only Angel has golden hair, so who the White Fog woman is referring to is self-evident.

Praised by this “person” for his good looks, Angel should have felt very happy, but when he received the angry glares from the “crooked melons and cracked dates” around him, he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Nisi saw that the white fog woman did not seem to have any intention of stopping and quickly interrupted: “Lord Harji, they still have to conduct the targeted tests, I will take them away first. I request Lord Harji to please open the channel for them.”

Generally speaking, entering the Mirror World usually does not require Harji to be notified… However, these talents, which have not yet been registered with Bone Card, must go through this procedure. Otherwise, Nisi would never have called out Harji… who only looks at their appearance.

Harji “snapped”, making a snapping sound between her two white foggy fingers. Then a white fog merged directly into the Bone Card in each talents’ hands.

“All right, I’m going back to sleep. Don’t disturb me if you’re ugly.” Harji paused: “Golden-haired boy, you are barely qualified, it is rare to see such a good-looking man. Feel free to come to this old lady for some tea.”

After that, Harji turned into a puff of smoke and disappeared into the Mirror Plane.