After parting ways with Marylian, Saine and Lunna wandered around Snow Spirit World for another two years before setting out to leave this Mid-Level World.
Marylian had been right. After climbing the First Snow Peak of Snow Spirit World, there was little point in visiting the world's other regions.
This was a special world blanketed in heavy snow all year round, and Snow Spirit World likewise had no concept of sun or moon.
Thick layers of accumulated clouds shielded the indigenous creatures of Snow Spirit World from the light of the nearby stellar body.
Through that perennial veil of gray icy clouds, Saine and the others could see only a hazy outline of the star.
Without that layer of snow clouds, this Mid-Level World, like Wizard World, would have been a plane with only one sun.
Only at Snow Spirit World's polar regions, when polar night descended, would the icy clouds in the sky part under the influence of special planar gravity, revealing the boundlessness and splendor of the Star Realm to the creatures of this world.
Level-2 Witch Marylian was quite to Saine's taste as a mage.
Saine had met quite a few mages at Azure Source Holy Tower, but there were only a handful he could call friends close enough to bare his heart to.
Though he had spent only a few short years with Marylian, this Witch had indeed drawn Saine in with her profound knowledge and outstanding insights as a spellcaster.
Of course, another reason was probably that Marylian, like him, belonged among the young people.
Though he had not rashly asked her age, based on Saine's understanding of human bodies in Wizard World, as well as the experience he had gained from numerous Body Tempering Experiments,
by observing and analyzing the subtle details of Marylian's