"The Star-Gazer School had plenty of ideas that seemed mad, but it wasn't without its merits. Looking back now, if it hadn't expanded so recklessly, spread knowledge so widely, and debated so fiercely, the Mage Alliance might have needed several more centuries to reach where it is today." Abelid stood in Blanur's central square as it had been in the past, gazing up at the tower that seemed to touch the sky.
"But the path they chose was too extreme. In the end, everyone turned against them. Even if civil war hadn't broken out within the Alliance, the Hours would have intervened. What they were doing had already become dangerously reckless."
"Most Hours reject rifts to other worlds and life from the Star World, though they won't pursue every small probe or experiment. As you've seen, they ignore the arrival of Astral Realm creatures of the Sixth Order and below. But if you start summoning Seventh Order Alien Star creatures, you'll receive a warning from an Hour very quickly."
At his words, Sylutia recalled the Hundred-Eyes Order's ritual she had witnessed during her time in Regas. She and the Regas Kingdom had considered it terrifyingly dangerous, but to the Hours and Named Ones, perhaps it had looked like children playing pretend.
"This time, take the team to the City of Star-Gazing. Seal off the area first, then thoroughly investigate the Underground Palace of Blanur. The people accompanying you will cooperate. Also—" Abelid paused to think before continuing.
"Try to learn the Star Palace Arrays preserved there, or at least memorize them. They may prove useful one day."
"Those arrays came from the Star-Gazing School of a very early age. Their ambitions were too vast, and they eventually drew the Hours' wrath. But judging by the Hours' later attitude, there seemed