The Silent One's Arrival

In any case, Punk's practice of Legendary Magic had finally come to an end. The spellcaster had successfully advanced to Level Twenty-Two. Though Punk was still a bona fide newly-promoted Legendary, at least among newly-promoted Legendaries, he no longer had much to fear.

With a proficiently cast Legendary Magic as backing, Punk felt even more confident than he had after obtaining the God of Red Sands' inheritance.

According to Punk's plans, now that he had finished practicing Legendary Magic, he should have begun researching his next subject—such as learning another Legendary Magic, practicing more destruction-type Legendary Level Spells, or even trying to study the magical ingredient known as Stewed Fragrant Mushroom Cluster. After all, those carefree mushroomfolk reproduced so rapidly that "harvesting" some of them for experiments could even "help" alleviate their population pressure...

These were merely some of Punk's inevitable thoughts. His foundation was still far too weak, and there were far too many things worthy of spending time researching in depth. His pile of subjects had already grown so large that even Punk was beginning to feel overwhelmed.

However... before the spellcaster could organize his scattered thoughts, a message from the Mage Tower interrupted every one of his considerations.

It was a rigid report from a cleaning golem, and it was also the Mage Tower's only "emergency report" during the more than thousand years Punk had spent in the Astral Plane researching Legendary Magic—because while the golem had been cleaning Punk's laboratory, it had discovered a small ball of light that had abruptly appeared in the very center of the laboratory.

Then, the mysterious ball of light simply delivered a message to the cleaning golem:

"Inform your master that the Silent Alliance wishes to meet him in friendship!"

Punk's Mage Tower was jointly managed by a great number