In the largest library of the Rose Council in Wizard Land's Cloud Marsh Wetland, seven gears floated behind Solas. Three cams and four connecting rods meshed with them, though none of the components touched. Only spiritual energy linked them across the gaps.
As the middle-aged wizard in a monocle moved, the complex, contactless textile magic device followed behind him. Gears meshed, cams turned, and rods moved.
This Solas Wizard stood on a wooden ladder, holding a dust-covered spellbook in his left hand and a Lingzhi Magic Plant in his right. He watched a video that was going viral among Third-Ring Wizards: Mike Wizard, a Second-Ring Wizard from Kunguding Academy, a medium-to-large wizard organization in the Golden Crown Mountain District, had accidentally used a Wizard's Shoe from the Augustus Shop Alliance to temporarily seal one head of the Purple-Spotted Eight-Headed Serpent, the world lord of the Venom Great World.
Solas Wizard smiled at the sight and spoke to the witch beside him, whose robe shone with azure magic light. "Using the occult significance of magic plants in the field of Wizard's Shoes. I'm impressed he thought of it. What do you think, Madam Clotho, my first student and the senior sister of my school?"
"Teacher, Argos is useless," said Clotho, a Sun-Ring Wizard. "He went to Solas Barefoot after you spent your own resources securing him that opportunity. Yet the moment he arrived, Augustus released a product like this. It's a terrible blow to our Shop Alliance."
"I say Argos should step down."
"Put someone more capable in charge. I don't want to lose to the Red Dragon School Lineage."
Solas Wizard smiled and handed Clotho the spellbook. Then he browsed the images on the Lingzhi Magic Plant and read a recent Third-Ring Q3 Journal article by Kundin, Kunguding Academy's headmaster