Sol and Jeffrey stood together, looking like ordinary apprentices who had come to take the selection test. Their turn came soon.
Sol casually registered their information, then entered the Star-Gazing Tower with Jeffrey.
He found the place surprisingly lax, while every Wizard on the job seemed incredibly busy, as if they had endless work to do.
Seeing how things were inside the Star-Gazing Tower, Sol stopped pretending and immediately joined the crowd taking the selection test, heading upstairs.
The Star-Gazing Tower had no windows, so Sol had the Nightmare Butterfly periodically go outside to check the Red Worm's mouthparts.
They passed many people along the way, but none paid Sol any attention. It was as if they couldn't see him.
"Whenever I sneak off somewhere, I get caught almost as soon as I arrive. Now I walk right in openly, and nobody cares."
Beth laughed from inside the Diary.
[Maybe they never imagined you'd dare break into the Star Gate Council's headquarters?]
Sol soon reached the right spot, but the entrance to the World Side wasn't easy for outsiders to find.
He was on a hollow floor. In other words, there was no floor in the middle of this level, leaving it open to the one below. Since the Star-Gazing Tower's floors were nearly four meters high, a vast space more than seven meters tall lay before him.
"This should be the place. But there aren't any guards here either?"
Sol extended his Mental Power, sweeping the space, but found no entrance to the World Side.
Of the World Sides he'd visited before, he'd either entered without warning, used a Key like the Chaos Domain Compass, or been taken in by someone from the Radiance Clan. He'd never needed to search for an entrance.
Now, although he had guessed where