Using the teleportation array in the castle's Meditation Room, one could travel directly to the headmaster's office in the central tower of Gallop Academy, then take the Magic Lift down to the very bottom of the tower: the Magic Furnace Room.
As the Magic Lift descended, Wendy's anger gradually faded, replaced by a growing sense of anxious uncertainty.
When she was little, her father had told her that their family carried a trace of Devil Race bloodline. Because of this, she was more likely than ordinary people to awaken her Bloodline—but that same bloodline meant that even if she became a Mage, no noble would dare marry her openly.
The only paths open to her were to hide beneath the protection of a great family, or become some nobleman's secret mistress.
Her father's words had left a profound mark on the fiercely proud Wendy. From the moment she awakened her Bloodline, she had yearned for respect and equality. That desire had even brought her all the way to the Gallop Plains.
Fortunately, she had met Landen Gallop—and she had met him before he shone brilliantly, becoming the most important Mage on his road to success, as well as the only Human Race member in the territory who had always dared to call him by his given name.
More fortunately still, though Landen had grown far faster, he had never cast her aside. Even after she was no longer the most powerful Mage in the territory, Landen still treated her as an equal. Even the high-born Gleia Blue Dragon treated her like a sister.
Within the territory, every Knight, Apprentice, Barbarian, and even Beastman knew that the girls could come and go from Landen's room as they pleased. Even Landen's father, Hark Gallop, knew that what these girls said might carry