Two Bright Moons, one large and one small, hung in the inky blue night sky, half-veiled by drifting clouds. Countless stars gleamed like scattered fireflies, setting off the city lights below. Farther away lay mountains like silhouettes cut from darkness, where faint halos like curtains of aurora could barely be seen.
According to calculations by mage scholars, those halos should have been optical phenomena caused by magic interacting with certain substances in the air. As for the more detailed and specific reasons, no one knew. Few people paid attention to scenes like this, which resembled natural phenomena.
Several towering spires stood throughout Steel City like sentinels guarding the city in the darkness. They served many purposes, including but not limited to observing the flow of magic, monitoring climate changes to update weather forecasts in real time, and observing celestial bodies and planets.
The cool night breeze swept through the crisscrossing metal structures of the tower, carrying bursts of low rumbling sounds. Accompanied by the spatial fluctuations brought by Teleportation Magic, two figures appeared atop the tower.
Wang Gulas wore a grave expression as he carefully sensed the lingering magical fluctuations in the air.
Tonight was a good night for observing the stars, and that was why he had come here. Yet an unexpected situation had arisen. If an observation device had not happened to be operating, he would never have discovered that two extra people had appeared here.
"No traces whatsoever." The other figure spoke, his voice sounding somewhat strange, faintly carrying a mechanical quality. "They appeared here out of thin air. The entire process involved neither magic nor spatial fluctuations. It is also possible that it had already exceeded our detection range."
The owner of the voice possessed a human form, but it was difficult to determine whether his