Otherworld Adventure

Cecil felt that it was somewhat odd. It was only the location for the gathering, not the actual location of the tournament"s venue.

"Are we going to transfer to someplace after we"ve gathered?"

Every one of the 100 students had gathered inside of the Academy"s main stadium"s arena. All the students who weren"t a part of them had also gathered inside the stadium to send everyone off.

The Royal Family and many of the aristocratic families were also present to send everyone off. It could be seen just how important this tournament was for the kingdom.

"Our Kingdom"s hopes lie on the shoulders of each and every one of you youngsters who are present! I pray for the success of every partic.i.p.ant! May the fortunes of the G.o.ddess be with you!"

The King finished up his brief "pep talk" and handed over the reins to the Academy"s Headmaster.

Elufied was smiling down at everyone present.

"My students!" Elufied exclaimed.

"I"m sure everyone knows the importance of the tournament, for you yourselves and the Kingdom! I won"t pressure any one of you to fight for the win. I just want everyone to give it their all! And return with your heads held high, knowing, that regardless of the outcome! You all did your best, for your families, friends, and for the Kingdom!!!"

All of the 100 students roared and cheered in response to the Headmaster"s words.

"Now, LET"S SET OFF!!!"

The Headmaster began to conjure a Spatial Gate in front of him. Next to him, two girls, Lucia and Yuna, were also doing the same. A day before, Headmaster Elufied had taken the two girls to the teleportation spot that was designated for their academy in the Elven Capital City, Elfheim.
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It was G.o.dsend for him since now with 2 additional teleportation gates, he wouldn"t have to ferry all the students using only his own. It was a large burden on the Headmaster"s mana to teleport 100 individuals over a long distance.

It was a good thing that two other students had similar teleportation abilities so they helped lighten his load.

With the singular Spatial Gate from Elufied and the two Misty Gates from Lucia and Yuna, the students of the academy were quickly transported over to the Elven Capital.

Cecil and the Little Kings decided to hang back. They waited until every student had walked through the gates before going in themselves. They were all still worried about Lucia, especially when they saw her cough up blood and immediately faint just after her fight with Cecil.

She had actually ruined her mana pathways, but it was a good thing that her mother had just the right medicine to cure it. After her recovery, although the pathways hadn"t changed into Mana Circuits, but they had become more robust and now Lucia had a much better time circulating her mana and controlling it.

It was a blessing in the disguise of a disaster. She was also lucky that her mother had just created a batch of potions to help with Cecil"s cultivation. Cecil was left with only 5 vials of potions, but at least Lucia was safe and she hadn"t crippled herself.

Despite her full recovery, her friends were still worried about her. She had fainted and didn"t wake up for 2 days! So of course they would be worried, regardless if she had recovered or not.

Fina was practically bawling her eyes out during the entire time and Cecil felt that he was at fault for pushing Lucia to that extent. Even Serilla dropped by to check on her condition and she had even helped out during her recuperation.

This greatly puzzled Cecil and Ainz, since weren"t those two supposed to be rivals?

The girls however had already extracted the necessary information so they knew that the two girls were in an alliance to win over Cecil"s affection and to prevent any other girls from sinking their claws into the innocent boy.

Because they spent more time with each other, the girls of Little Kings began to treat Serilla as one of their own, despite the fact that the girl said she wouldn"t be leaving the Student Council even after Eli had invited her to join them.

After making sure that the last student pa.s.sed through the gate, Cecil and the rest walked through and the Misty Gate quickly closed behind them.

When their vision became clear once again, a majestic sight entered into their eyes. For the ones who had never come to Elfheim before, the gigantic trees that they were on, the squares made of intertwined branches and vines, the buildings created from the hollowed out tree trunks, the radiating sunlight peeking out of the dense foliage above them, and ambient mana that was in abundance and the soothing aroma and atmosphere of the city shocked each and every one of them.

This was especially so for Cecil. His curious nature took the better of him that he actually began to Blink all around the place, going right up to the things that had attracted his curiosity.

This of course startled the many elves that were in the surrounding areas that Cecil had blinked to.

It was only until Lucia blinked to his side and pulled on his ear that he was forcibly stopped and dragged back towards their group.

The Little Kings were laughing since they were used to seeing this. Whenever anything of interest piqued Cecil"s attention, he would just straight forwardly go over and investigate without the slightest bit of shame or embarra.s.sment.

"Hahahaha! Alright now, I know that many of you are curious, but we still have to go to the gathering spot and report ourselves to the Kingdom! After that every one of you will have free time to explore the city!" Headmaster Elufied announced.

The large group quickly walked down the main tree branch road of the city and arrived at a large square. There were already many groups of students present inside the square, all bunched up together.

Cecil counted at least 5 groups of students including theirs. This meant that there were 5 Royal Academies that were qualified to partic.i.p.ate in the National Tournament. Of course there were other academies present in every kingdom, but apparently they weren"t at all qualified to partic.i.p.ate as representatives of their kingdoms.

Cecil grunted and observed the other groups. There was a group filled with Elves of all species. The Moon Elves with their light purplish skin and hair, the Sun Elves that were basically radiating with light, the Dark Elves, High Elves, Wood Elves and many other elven species.

"Okay, so that"s the Elven Kingdom"s Royal Academy, next is..." Cecil turned towards a group of large bodied students.

By large, he meant the over 3-4 meter in height bulky-figured large. This was apparently the Gigantes Kingdom"s Royal Academy Students.

The Gigantes race and Kingdom encapsulated all of the large sized demi-humans. The Minotaurs, Giants, Sentient Golems, Demi-dragonoids, Treefolk, and other large bodied species were a part of this Kingdom ruled by the Highbornes, a race that had fairy-like characteristics, but were 4-5 meters in height.

They were the exact opposites of fairies and pixies who were small-figured. Cecil was able to see the many large-bodied species, they looked intimidating and they all seemed to be warriors with only a select few wearing the garbs of mages.

He turned to look at the other Academy students. The Oceanic Kingdom of Neftersea"s Royal Academy, they had merfolk just like Fina, sharkmen, murlocs, Nagas, serpentkin, and many others.

Fina and Eli were also looking towards this group of students. They seemed to be searching for something, or someone. Cecil could already guess who or what they were looking for. Eli was obviously looking for her older sister who was sent as an exchange student with Fina, while Fina was probably looking for her siblings...if she had any.

Cecil took a look at the final group of students. Now this was what he was expecting of a "fantasy" world. Beastmen! He saw were-lions, werewolves, lizardmen, were-cats, dragonewts, and other were-beast students.

This was the difference between the Beastkin and the Beastmen. Beastkin people leaned more on the human side while having animal like features, an example would be Cecil himself, he looked human, but had fox ears on top of his head and sported 3 tails on his rear end. The same went for Ainz, he looked completely human, except for the fact that he had red scales on the side of his face and he had curled horns growing from the sides of his head just above his ears.

The Beastmen however had more animal-like features. They were basically just the "were"-people that were depicted in many of the fantasy themed stories back on Earth. The were-wolves, a race of people who were bipedal canines, were-lions, a race of people who were bipedal lions or lionesses, and then there were the lizardmen, bipedal lizards and finally the were-cats, bipedal felines that looked a little naughty and mischievous.

Actually, it was much better for Cecil that he had accidentally landed in the Beastkin kingdom upon arriving on Alterna, because if he had landed in the Beastmen Kingdom, who was known for their hatred against the humans, then Cecil would have had a rough time starting out.

The Headmaster left the role of leading the students to Zephyr and he strode over to the center of the plaza where a couple of important looking figures were gathered around.

"Good day everyone~ I"m sorry I"m late."

"Hmph, its good of you to actually show up Elufied," A dragonewt harrumphed.

"Now, now, everyone, let"s get along, Khukhu~" An elderly Tauren said with a booming chuckle.

"Tsk, so the halfling has finally shown up," a beautiful elf lady said with clear...hate? in her eyes.

"Oh my~ Arlentia, aren"t you growing more and more beautiful!" Elufied countered as he brushed off the insult like it was nothing.

"Wh-what are you saying?!" The elven lady, Arlentia, blushed as she received Elufied"s nonchalant compliment. It was clear that there was some...history between these two Headmasters.

"Where"s the King? Shouldn"t he be here to address us?" Elufied asked.

"The King is in preparations to open Urrugdrasil"s inner sanctum..."

"Hm? Then what about the tournament?"

"It"s a last minute change, but the tournament was sc.r.a.pped and the 100 students of every representing academy will be allowed to enter the World Tree"s trial grounds directly," Arlentia said as she informed her fellow headmasters.

"I"m pretty sure you all know, but when the students walk past that gateway, they will be teleported randomly inside the World Tree"s trial grounds."

"Oh...okay. How come this wasn"t relayed beforehand?" Elufied asked with a troubled smile.

"It was only today that I received news from the King, but apparently the World Tree"s Administrator will open the grounds on the day after tomorrow, so we had to quickly readjust the schedule."

"I see, well, I guess I should go tell my students."

"Mhm."

Elufied and the other headmasters walked back to their students and began explaining the changes towards the Tournament"s format.

Cecil was excited, not because of the tournament, but because after the headmaster announced the changes, the Elven Kingdom had escorts bring them towards their temporary housing. Urrugdrasil"s trial grounds will be opened up the day after tomorrow, so this means that he had today and tomorrow to go explore Elfheim City.

After they settled down in their accommodations, Cecil immediately took off to explore the city. He went alone since no one could react when he decided to Blink off to somewhere.

"Alright! Elfheim City here I come!"