Late at night, in the library clock tower of Blue Dragon Academy, Senior Knight Antrechi Blue Dragon was resting in a temporary guest room. This had been Gleia's suggestion—the library possessed the strongest Magic Array in the entire academy, enough to withstand the pressure of High-Rank beings and above.
A wind chime hung outside his door as well. Though the room's doors and windows were tightly shut, a strand of hair at the very bottom of the chime inexplicably drifted upward. Yet just before it could set the chime itself ringing, it fell back down.
Beneath the pool formed from countless people's consciousnesses, a black point of light swiftly departed from the area around the library.
Once the world of subconsciousness had completely fallen still, the light and shadow beneath the water abruptly shifted. A transparent body dozens of meters long suddenly rose from below.
"Hehe, it ran off just like that? How am I supposed to explain this to my niece Gleia?" The creature's colors kept changing before it finally revealed its true form: it resembled a chameleon several dozen meters long, with five horns growing from its head and two pairs of shimmering butterfly wings on its back, continually radiating the aura of a powerhouse.
"Fine, let it run. I doubt it will ever come back."
A forked tongue suddenly extended from the dragon's mouth. Its two tips gently traced a Magic Array through the air, and magic flowed through the Magic Web with the movements of its tongue.
Several kilometers away from the Elf Dragon, in a courtyard outside Blue Dragon City, the Mind Witch Ioni abruptly sat upright, drenched in sweat. "Thank goodness, thank goodness!"
Several girls had gathered around her bed. Seeing her bolt awake, they hurriedly asked, "Ioni, are you all right? What happened?"