As Jenny and the others piloted the floating ship eastward back to Dark Flame Holy Tower, gradually dwindling into a black speck in the distance.
Saine also left the area, paying no attention to the seven heavily wounded Star Sun Holy Tower magicians on the ground.
Saine flew south of the Petrified Forest.
His powerful Mental Strength and sharp judgment told Saine that those coming from the west of the Petrified Forest were stronger than those from the south.
Rice had to be eaten one bite at a time. The team of magicians Star Sun Holy Tower had sent across the border this time was a tough crust of bread; he would break it apart and savor it slowly.
Ande Lie, a Third-Level Great Magician from Star Sun Holy Tower, was discussing subjects related to Fire Element fusion experiments with Adolf, the Level-3 Magician traveling alongside him.
Ande Lie was a pure Fire Elementalist. His obsession with Fire Element Magic—especially research into particle fusion—had left him wavering for a long time three hundred years ago before he ultimately chose to join Star Sun Holy Tower.
The tower master of Star Sun Holy Tower was a Level-5 Magician with profound research in the fields of fire, light, and stellar magic.
In particular, the stellar field he studied was not the abstruse knowledge contained within the star-system distribution charts traditionally researched by astrologers of the Wizard World.
Rather, the tower master of Star Sun Holy Tower had bypassed appearances and directly studied the profound truths of particle eruptions contained within planetary fusion processes.
This discipline had a certain market in the Wizard World as well, but few had truly researched it deeply and thoroughly.
The reason was that this branch of stellar studies should more precisely be called the "Planetary Fusion