Chapter 333
"Very well, please give this letter back to Stim, I'll be there on time" With a flash of golden light in Negri's hand, the Great Magus' mana on the letter was erased, replaced with Negri's aura.
Watching Aiur leave, Negri focused his thoughts on the Great Magus' invitation. The so-called Mana Banquet was nothing more than a once every ten years banquet hosted by the House of Mages that he established.
Inviting a few supernatural beings to the Grand Library to conduct some sort of knowledge exchange.
For those fellows who were living like mice under the oppression of the Church of Seven Gods, this banquet was their biggest gift, and also their biggest stage.
But for Negri, this was nothing more than a child playing house, and now an adult whose heart was about to die was inviting him to play house with them. This was clearly trying to stir up trouble.
This place wasn't the SCR Foundation, so Negri's germs hadn't infected the entire world. Furthermore, there were still seven major interference sources present, so there were still many secrets that Negri didn't know about this world.
The necessary investigation is still necessary … Stim Allenz isn't a simple character after all. Negri waved his hand, causing a new mission to appear on the Hermit Order's A-rank mission board: [Investigate the Grand Library's abnormalities].
As the Hermit Order grew larger by the day, his every move was under constant surveillance. Countless people had infiltrated the Hermit Order, and the Hermit Order's internal mission system had also changed, now adopting a hierarchical system.
Every member of the Hermit Order had to spend a certain amount of contribution points in order to unlock higher-ranked missions, and after the ring changed owners, this level of authority would be reset.
Of course, I'll need to add a layer of insurance as well. Negri thought to himself.
In the Academic City, there were both high and mighty scholars from all over the world, as well as Sediments who had fled here for religious reasons, living in the slums and sewers. No one cared about their lives, so they could only rely on the help of the Sediments and a few kind-hearted people to survive.
A young man covered in dirt was using his hands to dig out a small piece of moss from the sewer and put it into his mouth. The corner of his mouth was still stained with some pitch-black mud.
After swallowing the moss into his stomach, he sat down on the street weakly and looked at the people walking around. His stomach quickly became noisy. Only a small amount of moss could be eaten, such as seaweed. Even if it could be eaten, it must be cleaned up. Things like this next to the sewer, who knew how many unclean things were inside.
Only those who did not want to starve to death would come here to eat their fill and then welcome death.
The young man sat and waited for death, but he soon found that the discomfort was slowly disappearing.
"Jimmy, I'm going to ask you a very serious question." The young man suddenly heard someone talking. He looked up and saw two dark and thin figures in the sewer picking up things from the smelly ditch.
One of them asked with a serious expression.
"Ask away, Pilo, I'm listening" another black-skinned figure replied.
"Look at the poop in the ditch, I also poop in here, so where does my poop end up?" the one who asked the first question, Pilo, was talking about a disgusting topic.
"This isn't a serious topic, it's just being washed into the moat" Jimmy was speechless: "If I were you, I wouldn't waste my time on such pointless questions. If we can't find anything of value, we'll probably end up like this poop in two days, floating on top of this garbage "Jimmy was speechless:" This isn't a serious topic at all, it's just being washed into the moat "
"Are you complaining about poop?" Pilo continued to ask: "Then what? I mean, where does my poop end up? "
"Enough, this is a stupid question, can we not waste any more time?" Jimmy was clearly annoyed. They hadn't found anything of value for the past two days, if they couldn't find anything today, they would have no choice but to eat the moss and wait to die. But his companion was wasting his time talking nonsense.
"They'll go from the ditch to the moat, then to the other river basins before heading to the sea. Is that enough?" Jimmy said excitedly.
"To the ocean, everyone's poop goes to the ocean, is it the ocean with the big fish?" Pilo didn't seem to notice Jimmy's excitement and continued talking to himself.
"I heard from the scholars in the city that many of the clouds in the sky are evaporated from the sea … Yes, evaporation. Clouds are formed from the evaporation of seawater." Pilo continued: "The feces mixed with seawater, drifted to the sky and turned into feces clouds, the feces clouds then rained feces, falling on the sapling, absorbing the feces rain, the feces trees grew towards the sky …"
"So what? We're about to starve to death. Let's end this topic and focus on survival, okay?" Jimmy was about to go crazy. The pressure of survival was crushing him, and he could collapse at any moment.
"I'm thinking, if my poop can leave this place, maybe we can too." Pilo looked at Jimmy, still maintaining his solemn expression: "Don't you think so, Jimmy?"
Jimmy's annoyed expression froze, thinking about how the feces that even they despised could leave this place and head to the ocean that they had never seen before. Together with the big fish, they could fly to the sky, turn into clouds and rain. The fear he felt towards his future without a place to rely on, towards his impending death, slowly faded away.
Jimmy nodded, his voice becoming hoarse: "Perhaps, Pilo"
The Sediments living at the bottom of the city, the fear and despair they felt was unimaginable to most people. They might not even have a tomorrow, and no one would care about their life or death, aside from themselves.
The two of them were mixed together in the gutter, but at this moment, there was light flashing on their bodies.
The young man looked at the two of them who were searching for anything useful in the ditch. He rubbed his calmed stomach, then a bit of information appeared in his mind.
[Dirt-Infused moss, able to speed up the weathering of rocks, conserve water and soil, indicating the composition of the soil … after being mixed with Black Horn powder, it can be used as food, extracted 0.01 strands of Impurity]
Instinctively, the young man understood that this was the effect of the moss. As for what the Impurity was after that, the young man didn't know, but he knew that he had struck it rich. If that information wasn't fake, a new type of food would be enough for him to leave this slum.
"The Gods have favored me!" The young man picked up a large piece of moss with his hand, then suddenly recalled Jimmy and Pilo's conversation in his mind. Some sort of power began to guide him and rewrite his way of thinking.
"The benefits of a new type of food aren't low, I need help, otherwise, I won't be able to eat it" The young man who didn't have much of a plan suddenly understood this, he stood up and told Jimmy and Pilo in the ditch: "You two, I have a chance to survive here"
"You are?" The two people in the ditch looked at the young man doubtfully. He didn't look much better off than they did, yet he said something about a chance to survive, he's not a cannibal, is he?
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