The Wisdom Tower had detected Arcane and the others right away. Although it wasn't clear how Arcane's group had bypassed the Wisdom Tower's wards to teleport there, the tower trusted Arcane, and a mage soon came to lead them inside.
The middle-aged mage responsible for meeting with Arcane was named Roy.
He glanced at the Lantern Bearers around Arcane, then asked him, "Lafall, who are these people?"
Arcane replied, "They're my friends. They heard the Wisdom Tower had come under attack and came to help!"
"Friends?"
Roy hesitated, but eventually nodded.
In a world as powerful as the Six Rings World, traveling through space was nothing difficult to understand. The Archmages had traveled to other worlds before, and beings from other worlds occasionally stumbled into the Six Rings World.
So Roy assumed Shinji's group were just ordinary travelers from another world.
Arcane asked urgently, "What exactly happened?"
"Come with me!"
Roy led Arcane and the others to a platform atop the Wisdom Tower.
Pointing toward the area in the distance, where flames blazed and explosions rumbled, Roy said, "Those monsters appeared three days ago. At first there was only one, and the mage squad stationed at an outer watchtower killed it, so we didn't pay much attention. But then more and more of them appeared. The outer watchtowers fell one after another, and now they've reached the Wisdom Tower!"
Taking advantage of the platform's elevated view, everyone looked out across the area and saw that the land around the Wisdom Tower was dotted with battlefields of all sizes.
The attackers were Flesh Puppets, the same creatures that had rampaged across T33.
However, these Flesh Puppets were still in their early forms. They stood only seven or eight meters tall, about the height of a two- or three-story building, and were