On the rooftop of a building outside the restricted area of the main magical energy supply station in the First District.
Everything was still calm. It was not even raining. Looking up, the thick clouds had been swept away by the currents of air, revealing the starry sky above.
At the edge of the rooftop, a woman in a purple dress who had been waiting there for a long time looked toward the Fourth District, seemingly staring at something.
After a moment, as if she had received confirmation, her figure flashed and she entered the main magical energy station, releasing a blue orb from within her body.
The next second, the orb abruptly expanded outward from her as its center. In an instant, it enveloped the entire station, which covered thousands of acres. At a glance, it looked as though an enormous blue glass sphere the size of a mountain range had been embedded there.
But in the blink of an eye, the blue sphere vanished, leaving everyone who had happened to witness the scene in the dead of night staring in astonishment and rubbing their eyes, thinking they had seen an illusion.
By the time Hills Heller realized something was wrong, he was no longer in the break room of the main magical energy supply station.
He found himself standing atop a boundless expanse of water. Above him was a flawless blue sky without a trace of any other color, while a pale golden sun in the distance gave off a gentle halo. Water and sky merged into one—vast, breathtakingly beautiful, yet permeated by a suffocating loneliness.
Hills narrowed his eyes and surveyed his surroundings gravely. As the vice dean of the Elemental Sanctum and master of the Elemental Furnace, he had never imagined that one day he would