Beneath the palace, when the ritual deep within the world began to manifest, Filo stopped what she was doing, looked up at the sky, and silently sighed.
The gap really was this vast?
"What is it, Lady Filo?" Gandalf, who had been assisting Filo nearby, saw her suddenly stop and asked in confusion.
As merely a Third Tier, he could not sense the changes deep within the world as Isaac and the others could, so his confusion was only natural.
Filo fell silent for a moment, sighed, set down her work, and said somewhat helplessly to Gandalf, "There's no need to continue the experiment here. The problem has already been solved—"
"Solved?" Gandalf froze, then revealed an incredulous expression. It had been solved already? That person had only just arrived, hadn't he?!
Honestly, though it was not quite appropriate for him to say so, choosing to surrender three years ago had truly been an extremely correct decision. Setting aside the other two, Filo's background was anything but ordinary. Though she was currently down on her luck, that only highlighted their importance even more.
After all, adding flowers to brocade could never compare to delivering charcoal in the snow.
More importantly, over these three years, Gandalf had greatly broadened his horizons through his exchanges with Filo. For a researcher, that was exceedingly important!
And because of that, he understood just how difficult this was.
The fusion of an Astral God's Shadow was not something no Star Wizard had mentioned in history, but the reason this line of thought had never been carried through was largely due to its immense difficulty. How could one capture an Astral God's Shadow that existed only in a state of visualization? How could one maintain oneself amid the chaotic power of the Star God during fusion?