Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 867 The Desire to Hunt

Among the many branches of the Magic Academy in Ilan, the oldest and most prestigious is undoubtedly the Department of Astrology. The "Thousand Pillars" in the City of a Thousand Pillars, though called minarets, are actually dedicated to serving astrologers. The people of Ilan have a profound passion for astrology, but they haven't developed a complete faith in the stars. Instead, they've evolved from initially using the movement of stars to distinguish years and seasons to now directly harnessing the power of the stars…

Therefore, it possesses a certain sacredness and places certain requirements on the learners themselves, such as the "purity" of the soul and body as mentioned by astrology apprentices.

Young students who do not meet this requirement will be assigned to other "unorthodox" departments to study other forms of magic derived from ancient astrology.

The bald mentor was right. Kai was an extremely talented person; otherwise, as an outsider, he would not have been admitted to the magic academy. But unfortunately, the requirements for entering the astrology department were too strict. The mysterious soul selection mechanism did not value talent the most, and it could also detect the examinee's association with so-called evil gods.

And Kai's unpleasant experiences in Icam and Nanwei were brought up again.

……

However, Kai is resilient; otherwise, he wouldn't have survived to this day.

Kai had heard these kinds of harsh, garish words countless times; they were practically another required course for him at the Ilan Magic Academy.
He wasn't the only one in the academy to be bullied by astrology apprentices; similar situations had occurred to apprentices in other departments, so Kai was already used to it.

However, ever since her attempt to climb over the city's wall was exposed, the strange looks she received from the academy were no longer limited to those from the astrology department. People from other departments, including her own classmates, also began to avoid her.

The reason is simple: the underlying mentality of the Ilan people is to utterly reject those in power, and Kai has crossed their bottom line.

But she didn't care about any of that. She wanted to go back to Milo and Rebecca, and as long as they were alive, she would chase after them no matter where they were. Milo and Rebecca had rescued her from the pile of corpses in Icam, and Kay would never forget that. But her obsession with breaking free from Ilam had nothing to do with gratitude; as she herself said, they were her family.

Yilan did not have frequent contact with the outside world. Any news that came through was just hearsay, and might even have happened months or half a year ago.

Therefore, Kai was unaware of the current situation of the old members in the Dream Realm.

During the years she spent in Elan, she studied star magic with all her might, so that if another great disaster like the Blood Moon were to occur in the future, she could protect her brothers and sisters from the wind and rain.

But in reality, she is still the same skinny, white-haired girl she was back then, and she has never changed.

The night he first received the rumors about Milo, Kai hid in the quietest corner of the academy and cried his heart out all night...

...

So no matter how harshly the people at the astrology academy spoke to him, Kai could endure it.

If they're going to be confined, they should be pulled down from the city wall and locked up. It's not worth it to lock these idiots up just to teach them a lesson.

It would be nice to be expelled from the academy, but the key is that I can't.

Alas, being confined in Ilan is almost no different from being imprisoned. Those dilapidated high walls block all foreigners who dare to try to enter, and at the same time, they block the view of all the Ilan people.

But nothing in this world is absolute.

...

At the magic academy, as Kai shook off the group of barefoot bitches and turned to leave, someone had already silently slipped through the high wall of rejection and arrived at the foot of one of the Thousand Minaret of Elan.

Naturally, it is Milo, one of the "family members".

It wasn't through the order of the shadows that she achieved this, but rather through the petite Enid she carried on her waist.

As he had predicted, among cities created by dreamers, only the most powerful dreamers could pass through the high walls that rejected all external will.

Milo slipped silently into the City of a Thousand Pillars without attracting the attention of any of the locals. Note that it was "without attracting the attention of any of the locals."

So, besides Kai, the genius apprentice who was taken in, are there any other foreigners in and around Ilan?

Of course there are.

And there are quite a lot.

Strictly speaking, Elan is not completely closed off and exclusive. For example, the academy would regularly send teams out secretly to conduct research around this desolate Gobi Desert, bringing back some fresh creatures to enrich the city's biodiversity. I mean, new plants and animals, as well as some qualified people or children of other races.

So in the academy you can see not only barefoot human senior students, but also barefoot Migo astrology senior students.

In case you've forgotten what Migo looks like, let me mention it again: it's a large, multi-legged creature that's over two meters long, looks a bit like a crab, but has insect-like membranous wings, which Wendigo loves to eat.

It's hard to say whether Quentin will be ecstatic now.

...

So which foreigners noticed Milo, this intruder?

Ah, naturally those who already harbored ulterior motives.

……

The neighborhoods of the City of a Thousand Pillars consist of many independent businesses.

Milo wandered among them, experiencing the exotic atmosphere that was different from Nanwei City and did not belong to the Dreamland. To put it another way, this was a corner of other distant, clear-headed worlds.

Of course, he had already concealed all his presence, and those lurking observers were probably anxiously searching for Milo's whereabouts.

Milo could have simply barged into the magic academy to pick up Kai and take him home.

However, after he sensed some foreigners in Elan and the dark, ominous atmosphere behind the sandstorms of the Gobi Desert outside the city, Milo changed his original plan.

The reason was that he smelled some familiar scents.

Those were scents he would never forget, even after dying several times over; names he had placed on his death list surfaced one by one in his mind.

The will to hunt and seek revenge was growing wildly in Milo's mind, like a flickering flame, and had reached a point where it could no longer be contained.

Even his face and the corners of his eyes would occasionally twitch uncontrollably, a sign of burgeoning excitement.

...

"This is probably due to the absorption of too much human nature."

Milo raised his hand and rubbed his twitching eyebrows, deciding to find something to eat by the roadside to tide him over.

It wasn't until Milo sat at a roadside shop table, staring at a plate of wriggling raw, pickled sandworms, that he realized that eating itself was a manifestation of humanity slowly reviving and taking over.

Arriving in a new place, he would first try the local cuisine, which was one of his habits in the initial world, but he gradually forgot about it later.

(End of this chapter)