Realm of Dusk and Dawn, Golden Dynasty, Old Ruins.
This was a wondrous city, with gold everywhere, one of the Golden Dynasty's five most important cities: the Ruined City.
The main Wizard University in the Realm of Dusk and Dawn was the Golden Dynasty, which consisted primarily of five colleges centered around its five major cities, including Old Ruins City and the Meri Ruins.
Old Ruins City was said to have once been the most glorious city in the Realm of Dusk and Dawn, possessing incredible, miraculous magical power. Even after suffering a devastating blow, the glory and miracles of ten thousand years ago still flowed through it.
Nine-tenths of Old Ruins City's buildings were ruins, while the remaining tenth had been built over the past ten thousand years.
Thus, half the wizards living here occupied the usable buildings among the ruins, while the other half lived in the newly built structures.
That alone was enough to show just how vast Old Ruins City had once been.
The buildings constructed over ten thousand years amounted to only a tenth of the surviving ruins.
In Old Ruins City, half a bronze bell lay over the ground. Rust-speckled and covered in the marks of time, it served as the headquarters of the journal Boundary.
The bronze bell was the size of a small mountain. It was a high-grade magical artifact of unknown rank, or perhaps a voidcraft. In any case, no one could say for certain what it actually did or what its original purpose had been.
Perhaps it was merely a small component of a much larger magical artifact.
Yet this mountain-sized half-bell contained many rooms, and the large quantities of rare magical metals used in its construction made it an extremely valuable magical resource in its own right.
And so,