Journey In A Fantasy World
Queen Hudie

"Greetings, Queen!" the dwarves gathered in front of their queen, Jian and Rui followed, but Jian had to hit Neo on the knee first for Neo to kneel with them.

The queen sent the dwarves out. The look of this beautiful queen did not seem as simple as it looked. Neo stared at him without blinking for tens of seconds.

"What do you need to find me?" The queen asked Jian, Rui and Neo.

Instead of replying, Rui nudged Neo into immediately explaining their situation to the Queen. Neo instead elbowed Jian to explain it first.

Jian clucked, "You guys are unreliable!"

The queen noticed the children in front of her who were even fighting to throw explanations at each other. It irritated him, but he could not make these children afraid on the first day they met him. That would make him slightly lose the trust of this small handful of people.

"The blonde, you explain. What makes you dare to come to my palace?" The Queen pointed at Rui to explain.

"Eh, me?" Rui was surprised as she was appointed to explain, "Usually Jian is always appointed to explain," Rui whispered to Neo.

"This time is different, Rui. You just explain, I don't know how you guys got in anyway, do you?" Neo answered.

Rui cleared her throat, "Look, Queen ...," Rui recounted all the events while they were still in their school library, until suddenly being in the cotton meadow when opening the door of the theater room. Neo added that he even fell on top of a disgusting bright yellow blob.

The Queen was still trying to understand this youngster's story, "It seems that you guys are lost far away," the Queen looked at the three of them with a look of pity.

"Eh, he understands our language without the need for magic or translators," Jian whispered to Neo.

"He's the Queen, Jian. Despite not knowing her name and not being in history, she must be more powerful than the Queen we think because she is a witch" Neo whispered back.

"Unfortunately, I only have one solution to your problem," the Queen stood up, then walked up to the three children and looked at them closely one by one.

His right hand is raised upwards. A lightning bolt struck, the roof of the spacious room opened, lightning barged in.

Rui rounded her eyes, "What is that?!"

"Hold the pain, kids. If you want to go home!"

Neo immediately closed his eyes, his mouth grimacing as it felt really like he was struck by lightning.

After a few minutes, the lightning had finished striking them. Jian lurked, "Eh, am I still alive?"

"The driver will not kill you, Young man," the Queen replied to Jian's curse.

"This is the identity of the Hudie Magic Academy. You guys will be studying magic for a few weeks in my magic academy. With this magic identity, you can use your magic elements. It also has its own magical animal" the Queen explained briefly.

Rui looked worried, "Jian, doesn't this mean we can't go home? Why would he give us the Witch's Identity?" Rui whispered softly.

"Because this is the only way you can go home. By practicing magic, then exploring the entire corner of Pubu to find three magical heirlooms that can send you home," The Queen heard Rui's whisper, she explained patiently to these naive children.

"Eh, what kind of heirloom?" Neo asked.

"It was an hourglass. I don't know where the specifics are. But he's in the Forest of Curious Spirits. The spirits of the dead witches guard it. They formed a huge City of Spirits to house the spirits of witches that their families did not pick up when they died. The dead witches were destined to keep the Hourglass for the rest of their deaths."

Rui nudged Neo's arm, "Usually for the rest of life right, huh?" whispered.

"Those spirits are no longer alive, Rui. They are dead but still on missions in the world even after death, they perform that task for the rest of their dead." Neo continued to pay attention to the Queen who patiently explained to them. It even displayed magic that could make them see the Curious Spirit Forest in front of them, like a colored hologram screen.

Rui shivered, "The mountain is creepy, Jian."

"After taking those two things, you should immediately head for third place. The summit of the Iceberg of Eternity. There, there is a dark cave that will make you lost because of yourself. The Hour of Eternity and the Candle of Eternity will warn you of your time limit in that cave. Don't let the sand run out. Do not let the magical energy in the candle shrink because of the dark aura in the cave. Before that happens, you have to find a key. If not .. you are forever trapped," The Queen displays the Ice Mountain Cave of Eternity. Also displays what kind of keys they should take.

Rui gulped. Getting stuck? That's so creepy.

"After that, there will be a small silver box that will fall along with the disappearance of the cave. You need to open it together with the key you found. Then deliver the objects inside the box to me, I will help you activate the dimensional portal formation using the Pubu City Magic Heirloom that has been sealed for thousands of years."

Jian, Rui and Neo stared at each other, "That thing was sealed for so long. It will finally be reopened by those of us who dispute its origin."

"Go to rest, at the end of the hallway, you will find a teleportation portal to your dorm room. The men in separate rooms!"

Jian and Rui nodded, "Thank you for the Queen's guidance."

"Call me Master Hudie at the Academy. You have to wear the uniform that's available in the dorm, don't wear that ugly uniform. Then come before sunrise."

"So his name is the same as his academy name ...," Rui whispered again.

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This witch dormitory is just as amazing as the large room of Queen Hudie. Jian and Rui sat their bottoms on the soft bed. They saw the interior of this delightful dorm room.

Neo's words seemed to be correct, in this room there were no windows, no ventilation, much less some kind of fan and AC. There were only transparent walls of giant glass around them.

"Do you think those on the outside can see us inside, Rui?" Jian asked, he noticed the magic school students who were wearing cool uniforms as well as holding a magic wand.

"It seems that it can't. You just think, in our world there is a glass that looks black from the outside, but from the inside we can look outside. Especially in this world?" Rui answered Jian's question.

"Hey, that sentence sounds like it's from Neo's mouth."

Rui grinned widely, "Neo told me as we passed through those long passageways. Isn't the wall the same as in this room?"

Jian nodded, "Alright, there's no way you can say it yourself. But where's the bathroom? How many days have we not had a shower? And just wearing our school uniform. We should take a shower and get some rest. Master Hudie told us to gather tomorrow morning, right?" Jian explored the contents of the room, looking for the whereabouts of the bathroom.

There was a small door in the corner. Jian opened it, his face looking excited, "It's the bathroom, Rui. There's a toilet too!"

Jian immediately entered the bathroom. Inside were a few bathrobes. Jian came out in that bathrobe. As Rui took turns to enter the bathroom, Jian changed his clothes with the clothes available in the witch's dorm room.

Tok tok!

Jian opened the door, in front of him stood a Neo who grinned wide, "My room is very quiet, Jian. Can I join you guys?"

Jian glued his teeth together. Closing the door so hard, Neo almost lost his nose, now that his nose was safe, he was red and in pain.

"Jian, you hurt my nose," Neo muttered from behind the door.

"As far as you! Who asked you to come? This is a girls room, if you want to enter, at least be a girl first!"

Jian laid his body on the bed. "It's very convenient."

Jian pondered, he never thought he would enter into the world he often saw in the comics he often read. Somehow their fate in this world. No family, no relatives, just relying on each other's friends.