In the spring of Year 358 of the New Calendar, the Glory Wizard Alliance publicly announced a major breakthrough in alchemical technology: an interworld teleportation array.
They also listed six other worlds to which people could be directly teleported. All of them were middle worlds, though five were worlds inhabited by evil gods.
The moment this news emerged, the entire world was thrown into an uproar.
The Glory Wizard Alliance had actually become this formidable? They had successfully forged an interworld teleportation array, and more importantly, they had even pinpointed six middle worlds?
This set the blood of those Level Eights and Level Nines with nowhere left to go boiling.
But then came the Glory Wizard Alliance's outrageous move: anyone wishing to leave this world had to leave behind all their equipment, items, and magic crystals. Naturally, they could retain essential alchemical tools.
As soon as this news came out, the Glory Wizard Alliance was condemned by every wizard. Had they gone mad with greed?
Yet the Glory Wizard Alliance paid no heed whatsoever to such reactions. Come if you wanted, or don't if you didn't. And they never responded to outside doubts either. In any case, they had succeeded in forging it.
This news sent shockwaves through the entire world. In particular, those Level Nines whose lifespans were nearing their end immediately converged from all directions upon the Glory Empire.
The winds and clouds of the world began to churn. And just at this moment—
Dole had also finished constructing his wizard array. To do so, he had spent an enormous quantity of magic crystals buying all manner of materials. He had originally possessed plenty of money, but after building this interworld magic array, he had basically spent it all.
It was simply too expensive, and the materials it