In the border between the Royal Academy and the Bandit Mountains, bandits blocked the road both above and below and everyone was blocked. Even’s carriage also came to a stop in the sky and a few dozen more arrived after his.
[Flying is no longer allowed until we let you go! Go down and stand in the cue and wait for your turn!] sounded a powerful voice that scared everyone including the Centaur leader. This voice belonged to a Rank 6 being and no one here was his match. What’s worse was that there was more than one Rank 6 among these bandits.
There were many queues on the ground and the weaker bandits were collecting toll fees from everyone. The Escorts Agencies had to pay the toll fee and the people they were escorting also had to pay a toll fee. Going back now wasn’t an option because the mountain bandits wouldn’t allow them to simply leave and those who tried to do so were likely killed without mercy.
Without a choice, they could only abide by the bandit rules and pay a toll fee. Even though there were hundreds of queues, there were tens of thousands of carriages. Everyone being escorted wanted to enroll in the Royal Academy so the bandits had chosen a perfect time to rob and loot. Slowly but surely, the queues moved and after hours of waiting, it was finally Evan’s turn.
"I’m Vice leader Jian of the Bloba Centaur Agency. How much is our toll fee?" asked Jian in a cold tone.
"Bloba? So you work for that follow, you’re quite rich. Pay twenty percent of the GP you have." said one of the bandit leaders. Jian clenched his teeth and took out his guild card. The weaker bandit took it and checked the amount of points it had and it was a whopping one million GP. Two hundred thousand GP were then transferred to the bandits and Jian’s card was given back.
"Everyone inside the carriage, get out now!" shouted the bandit lackey and everyone got off the carriage.
"State your names and where you come from before we proceed with the toll fee, all Nobles are exempted from paying." said the bandit lackey with an annoyed voice and bleeding heart. Hearing this, Evan was elated and before Jersse could warn him, Evan had already spoken.
"I’m from the Wulliz Viscount Family, Evan Wulliz and my Daniel is my father. Now let us pass!" said Evan arrogantly.
"Prove it." simply said the lackey and Evan produced the emblem of the Wulliz Family and showed it to the lackey. The lackey looked at the boss and the boss nodded slightly. Google seaʀᴄh 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭•𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮•𝘯𝘦𝘵
"You’re free to pass." said the lackey and Evan was about to enter the carriage when the lackey stopped him.
"Where are you going? The carriage is now ours. From here on out, you’re walking. That’s your first test of the Royal Academy." said the lackey. Evan wanted to say something but Jersse held him back.
"Mr Jiel, thank you for escorting us all the way here. We’ll definitely give your agency a five star rating, I promise."
"Mhm." nodded Jiel and bowed to Zixin before leaving with his team. The group had walked about ten kilometres and in front of them, there was a forest. Along the way, no one had said anything, not even the boys had complained about being tired.
"This is the Url Forest. Once we pass it, we’ll reach the Url Royal Academy but this forest is very dangerous because there’s Rank 6 Magical Beasts living here. With my father’s recommendation, I shouldn’t be taking this test. Someone from the academy should have fetched me already." said Evan in anger.
"Young Master Evan, there’s no point complaining now. Let’s just enter the forest, maybe we’ll be lucky enough to not come across powerful beasts." said Jersse.
"I can safely bring you to the other side but only under two conditions. One, you follow my lead without complaining and second. Our contract ends once inside the Royal Academy. In name, I’ll be your Translator but in reality, I’ll be free to do whatever I want. Don’t worry, I won’t cause any trouble for you." said Zixin calmly.
"I agree. I’ll follow your orders without question." said Evan after thinking for a while.
"Then let’s go." said Zixin and the group disappeared into the dangerous forest.
The Url Forest is a man-made forest created by the Url Family a long time ago but at that time, it was just a garden, a beautiful garden with beautiful flowers, plants, trees and insects. Anyone visiting the Url Family wouldn’t help but appreciate the beauty of this magical garden but then the Url Family underwent a state of decline and had to shut off themselves from the outside world for a long time and in that period of time, the unattended garden became a forest.
By the time the kingdom opened its doors again, one side of the kingdom was surrounded by this large forest. Land was cut to build an academy close to this forest and the kingdom made two entrances on opposite sides. One entrance was to the academy and the other entrance was to the kingdom. The academy was far larger than many cities and towns and could be considered its own country and next to it was the Url Kingdom.
As soon as they entered the forest, Zixin had activated his Compound eyes. His time in the Green Forest had taught him a lot of things and now roughly knew what the colours he saw meant.
Red for danger from Magical Insects, Green for Magical Plants and Herbs, Blue is for Rank 1 and 2 Magical Beasts and Insects. Yellow is for Rank 3 and 4 Magical Beasts and Insects, Orange is danger from Humans and Magical Beasts, Purple is for abundance in resources, Gold is for minerals and mines. Darker shades of red and orange meant the stronger and more dangerous the threat was. With such eyes, Zixin easily avoided many dangerous areas while collecting flowers and plants.
When people screamed for help, Zixin ignored them, when there was sounds of fighting, Zixin ignored them and if there was appearances of treasures, Zixin still ignored them. With his eyes, he couldn’t be easily deceived.