The Transmigrated Professor

Chapter 5: Venezia Island

Sci-fi technology is amazing.

No crowded public transportations as well as instantaneous teleportation with no sense of nausea. Portals were truly convenient. I gave my heartfelt thanks to my friend for including something like this in his novel.

Using the Academy's portal, I went to the Portal Station. There was slight motion-sickness but the experience was simply out of the world, quite literally.

The station was a tall building with various rooms that contained portals to all sorts of locations. Rainforests, oceans, even to other continents. You name it.

I was currently on the ground floor, waiting for my turn. At the reception, the receptionist asked about my destination and then calculated the ticket cost for a round-trip ticket.

Usually, a portal to such a far-away location would cost about 50,000 R, which was a bit more expensive than a round-trip domestic flight in my previous world. But the Academy provides its staff and students with special privileges, such as free portal usage.

"Ah, you are a Professor at the Star Academy!", she exclaimed as I handed her my professor ID. There was a hint of respect in her voice as she typed in my details on the computer.

"Please head to the 10th Floor, Room 1033", she instructed as she returned the ID.

After heading to the designated room, an attendant guided me inside. The room inside was huge unlike its outer appearance, expanded through magic engineering. Inside were several customers, like me, who were being guided to their destinations. We came in front of a large door. On its side, a screen was placed asking for the longitude, latitude, and altitude of the location to where the portal needed to be opened. As soon as the attendant typed in the coordinates, a vortex started to glow inside the door.

As I stepped in front of the vortex, the attendant handed me a small marble.

"I believe your return trip is a week from now. For the portal to reappear on your departure date, smash this marble at the location where you will appear.", the attendant explained. "You will have a 24-hour window to use the portal marble, after which it will become useless. You will have to call our customer service line so that we may retrieve you from your location. Though ,the retrieval service will cost you a price."

I nodded at her instructions and placed the marble in my dimensional ring. After that, I stepped into the portal.

Venezia Island, South of the Human Continent

I exited the portal to find myself on a beach. It seemed to be hidden from the rest of the area by some boulders.

Amongst the rocks, there was an opening that led to where the rest of the beach was. But when I passed through it, instead of the usual bustling beach life, I found myself on deserted sands.

Abandoned fishing boats lined the coast, while drifted seaweed covered the sand.

"Rustle"

I turned my head towards the noise. Hidden behind the boats was a tall guy. He was wearing a white vest over copper-tanned skin. His dark hair and eyes, along with youthful muscles which gave him quite an attractive appearance.

He glared at me, wary of the stranger, who had suddenly appeared on the beach, out of nowhere. I waved at him, flashing my best smile and trying to look as harmless as possible. The boy narrowed his eyes on me.

'Guess that didn't work.'

"Excuse me, do you know where everyone is?", I asked him, as politely as possible.

"Who are you? I have never seen you around here before.", the boy questioned.

"Um, I am just a visitor. I came from the Human Continent.", I replied.