The Future of Gallop Academy

At the top of Gallop Academy's mage tower, the central array that occupied the entire rooftop joined with the surrounding walls and the hundreds of rotating magic-pattern arrays on the floor to form a complete picture in motion. At the very center of the tower stood a hollow stone pillar less than two meters in radius. This central pillar, which ran from the tower's peak down beneath its foundation, was the core that linked every array within the entire tower.

Yet in the control room on the third underground level, the central pillar showed only the outline of a huge array, along with large swathes of blank space where more numerous and more intricate magic patterns ought to be drawn. These blanks had been deliberately left there, waiting for Landen to finish crafting the Exquisite Orb so that the other mages could add to them according to this control core.

"Far too exquisite. As expected of an array personally guided by an Elemental Avatar and personally overseen by a Legend mage." Gleia Blue Dragon brought the children she had already found and arrived in Night-Kirin City with Landen at noon.

Though Gleia often went in and out of Dragon Terrace Mountain's Royal Palace and Red Dragon Rock, she had not seen many of the Imperial Capital's Legend mages. After hearing that a Demigod mage had personally descended last night, she had rushed over impatiently to take a look.

"Wendy, was this really designed by Landen?" The tall Gleia looked around excitedly with her head raised, asking the girl beside her.

The one accompanying the headmistress of Gallop Academy and the person in charge of magical affairs was naturally Wendy, the person in charge of the Magic Workshop. As soon as Landen arrived in Night-Kirin City, he had run off to