In the lord's chamber of the Forest Palace, Queen Tania, the Fairy Queen who had rarely returned for a visit, sat upright beside a desk, smiling as she watched the girls before her.
In front of her, Wendy, Sophia, and Gleia stood at the desk, drawing patterns with threads of magical light.
Gleia had recently gained a new understanding of the Dragon Transformation Art. Upon the tabletop, she drew a Hydra Magic Array—the same simplified version the God of Life had created on the frozen lake through Totapara in White Tree City.
Wendy, meanwhile, cupped an Exquisite Orb in both hands and stared unblinkingly at the dozen or so streams of magic floating in the air. These streams were her "Mage Hands." Though each gave off only the faint glow of a firefly, those nearly ruleless, chaotically darting motes formed three-dimensional spell traces.
As for Sophia, she used several Exquisite Orbs floating around the edge of the table, attempting to form a circular Magic Array above it and gather the magic in the air into shape.
Beside the three of them, Redbird constantly pointed out mistakes in the girls' calculations, while Lily and Johnny could only watch the dazzling operations of the trio with envy.
Around the girls stood three magic beasts—Black Rabbit, Blaze, and Totapara. Their eyes held nothing but bewilderment.
All three magic beasts had already transformed into High-level Magic Beasts. In terms of drawing upon the Magic Web and wielding magic power, they were no worse than any Junior Archmage of the Human Race. Yet the precision with which Wendy and Sophia controlled magic far surpassed that of half the High-Rank mages.
The girls and magic beasts had crowded around Tania, while farther out, Fiana, Theresa, Elsa, Minier Hemlock, and Hestia Holy Fire, several Great Fairies, danced