Akatos needed some time to reunite with its master, so after they exchanged contact information, Han Ning returned to the academy to await news.
Before he left, he had informed Dean Wu and the others that he might be gone for several days, so no one seemed particularly anxious when he returned to the academy.
The academy had undergone new changes in the nearly week he'd been gone.
Buildings in the Insect-man style had shot up from the ground one after another.
To an outsider, the sight would be terrifying: swarms of insects would occasionally sweep low across the sky, leaving scorching trails of fire in their wake.
But if any other Insect-men were here, they would be astonished to discover that the riders of these insects were not their kind, but members of an "Alien Race" they had never seen before.
A complex of human-style buildings, about the size of a middle school, stood to the northeast of the academy.
