When Thor left the Purification Wizard Tower again, the pure-white tower, which had originally stood five stories tall with a large disk on top, had become seventeen stories tall.
Of course, Thor had only changed the Wizard Tower's overall structure. Butler still had to handle the interior renovations.
At the same time, Thor had decreed that no one else was allowed in the basement's second level or the spaces from the thirteenth to the seventeenth floors.
If anyone reckless enough tried to break in, the many Grudge Spirit Fragments inside the Wizard Tower would teach them a proper lesson.
If they were members of the Wizard Tower, they still had a chance to live—as long as they left immediately.
But if anyone else trespassed in the Wizard Tower, Thor would give them no chance to leave alive.
Butler Hope had worried at first that the Wizard Tower was too small. Now he worried that it was too large, and eventually decided to go to Rhine City to recruit a group of servants to handle the cleaning.
So after Thor left, the Purification Wizard Tower took on a little more of the Gorsa Wizard Tower's appearance.
This time, Thor hadn't brought Keli or Byron with him.
Both of them were completely absorbed in studying the Chaos Domain.
But he had brought an Orange Cat.
It was August, and the sun blazed overhead.
Even the sea breeze blowing in from the coast seemed scorched.
It was heavy and damp, with a strange fishy smell mixed in.
Thor stood behind a crowd of ordinary people waiting to board the Airship, a huge suitcase in hand and an Orange Cat crouched by his feet.
The new lord of the Land of No Owner was skipping work again to travel elsewhere. Though he had