The Jacob Family.
Their territory lay in a natural wind channel where three mountain ridges converged.
The cliff walls on both sides had been eroded by fierce winds, leaving row after row of marks.
The Riftwind Eagle Feather nests were here.
Using the natural caves as supports, they had reinforced and expanded them with Earth Element Wizardry into a suspended cluster of nests. There were dozens of them, and the central one alone had a diameter of several hundred meters.
When Ian and the others arrived, they saw the wizards of Greenfield Wizard Academy surrounding the fortress and attempting to attack.
The Jacob Family's wizards, meanwhile, had all huddled inside the largest nest, using the Riftwind Eagle Feathers' mobility to entangle themselves with the enemy.
When they saw a new group arrive, both sides stopped fighting.
The Greenfield wizards saw that it was a team from Elemental Mysteries. They were somewhat disappointed, but they still flew over quickly. At the front was a female wizard whose appearance was fairly attractive.
What surprised Ian was that another wizard was flying behind her.
She had pale green eyes and long silver-gray hair. A pair of bare, slender legs emerged from beneath a lotus-leaf-style skirt, as white and tender as tofu.
But if that were all, Ian would not have found it strange. Rather, it was the female wizard's sharply pointed ears, unlike those of any normal human.
They looked more like an elf's.
In fact, there were quite a few different species in this world, and some had integrated themselves into the wizarding system.
Elves were one of them.
Every one of them possessed an extremely strong affinity for nature. They were born Natural Wizards, and their talents were generally excellent.
That was why they were rarely seen in a place like