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Today was the day Alser's Steps opened, and the Tower of Illusions' hall became lively once more.
As usual, while waiting for the passage to officially open at ten in the morning, students gathered together to discuss all sorts of information about the illusion realm that they had picked up from who knew where.
However, those capable of competing for the rankings naturally would not wait until now to cram at the last minute. Most were simply chatting.
Yet the figure before the enormous stone pillar on the eastern side of the hall drew the attention of nearly everyone nearby.
He was a man who looked under thirty, with curly brown hair and a staff slung diagonally across his back.
The shaft of the staff looked plain, even somewhat rough, like a random branch snapped off from somewhere.
But perched atop that unremarkable staff was a massive yellow gemstone nearly fifteen centimeters in diameter.
Adrian Devol.
At that moment, his name stood ninth on the overall points leaderboard above the hall.
Standing beside him and speaking to him quietly was his teammate, Kalan Jaxos, who currently ranked second.
But in the students' eyes, if Adrian wanted to, he could carve his name at the very top of the light screen at any time and become first place.
Because he had done it before, and the staff on his back was Alser's Staff, the symbol of the academy's strongest student!
At that moment, Adrian was looking at the round-faced, lightly freckled girl before him.
She was Margot, the younger sister of his friend.
She had just been asking him about some of the information he had uncovered while exploring the second step of the illusion realm.
Adrian had always been willing to share such experience