Chapter 633 The Predecessors of the Empire? Three days later, on the spacious balcony of the room, Renn was leisurely enjoying afternoon tea.

"Old man, you've come all this way, won't you come out and greet us?" Renn put down his porcelain cup and spoke calmly without looking at anyone.

As soon as Raine finished speaking, an old man dressed in a light blue, wide robe appeared out of thin air at the edge of the balcony.

The old man held a cane, on which was inlaid a bright, icy blue crystal.

It was none other than Damian, the Dean of the Royal Academy of Lylemont.

"Such keen mental strength, one has to admit one's getting old." Damian stroked his beard and smiled.

With a flick of his finger, the wooden chair beside him instantly teleported behind Mian.

Damian raised an eyebrow at Renn's move; what skillful control of magic!

Based on that light flick of his finger just now, Damian is confident that it would be difficult to find someone on the Eternal Continent with more precise control over magic than Rein.

"Today should be the first day of school at the academy, so why isn't Dean Damian teaching at the academy? Why is he here with me?"

Damian wasn't surprised that Rein recognized him, and said, "Hehe, I just have some questions for you."

"I suppose the eyes that were secretly watching earlier were yours, Dean?" Renn gestured for Damian to sit down, and at the same time poured a cup of hot tea and handed it to Damian out of thin air.

Damian smiled and nodded, sat down in a chair, accepted the hot tea that was brought to him, and said:

"Yes, but please don't worry, I mean no harm. It's just that I'm a little curious about your identity."

Ryan raised an eyebrow: "Oh? What? Looks like you know something?"

Damian looked around, raised his staff, and a pale blue barrier completely enveloped the balcony.

A fourth-order anti-peeping array instantly took shape in Damian's hands.

Damian said, "Please don't worry, this is just a magic array to prevent prying eyes."

Raine raised his porcelain cup and nodded slightly, signaling Damian to continue.

Damian asked, "Your Excellency... are you not from the Eternal Continent?"

"Perhaps you are... from the continent of Soltis?"

Raine raised an eyebrow. The fact that this old man named Damian could call out the name 'Soltis Continent' meant that he really knew about the main continent.

Raine took a sip of hot tea and nodded, saying, "It seems you know quite a bit. I am indeed not from the Southern Continent... which is your Eternal Continent."

Upon receiving a positive answer from Raine, the last trace of doubt in Damian's eyes disappeared.

"It seems my guess was right; there is indeed an even larger continent beyond the Eternal Continent."

"How did you figure that out?" Ryan asked.

Upon hearing this, Damian carefully took out a complete skeleton from his magical artifact and placed it on the balcony floor between the two of them.

“This is a tomb I found in a cave when I was young. The clothes of the tomb’s occupant are very similar to the ones you were wearing back then…”

That's why I'm making such a bold guess.

Renn narrowed his eyes as he looked at the skeleton on the ground.

The skeleton on the ground was dressed in the noble attire of an old nobleman of the Essiah Empire, and judging from his appearance... he was a viscount.

Renn withdrew his gaze and said, "It is indeed the ancient noble attire of my Essiah Empire. This person should be a viscount of my Essiah Empire from several decades ago."

Did he have any other belongings on him?

Damian nodded, took out a yellowed book from his magic device, and handed it to Renn using magic.

Renn took the notebook and, after reading through its contents, gained an understanding of the skeletal remains before him.

The skeleton was named Daniel Russell, the head of an insignificant viscount family in the southern part of the empire.