"Hmm? It's you!"
Deep within the First-Ring Holy Tower Base, Fortress Heart Stigmata Wizard, who had come alone to Sector 258 from the elite reinforcements, looked at Green.
That mask...
At once, it reminded him of the little fellow from several thousand years ago who had sought his help and signed a Destiny Contract with him.
"Master Fortress Heart."
While the three-headed, six-armed giant worked with the female mechanical Stigmata Grand Wizard who had rushed back from the front lines to suppress the Weird Crystal Terminator that had appeared near Sector 258, the head wearing the Face of Truth turned toward this Stigmata Grand Wizard under the First-Ring True Spirit Wizard.
That had happened when Green was still a Level 3 Grand Wizard.
Back then, for the Biomechanical Microscopic Eye of the Face of Truth Phase Six Project, Green had gone to Sky City's First-Ring Holy Tower to post a mission, where he had unexpectedly met Fortress Heart Stigmata Wizard.
As a Stigmata Wizard under a True Spirit Wizard, Fortress Heart possessed no independent Source of Magic and could only draw upon the First-Ring Holy Tower's Source of Magic. Therefore, he cared deeply for his prized disciple, Superconductive Light, and could not allow his disciple to repeat his own mistakes—to have his Source of Magic destroyed, become a Stigmata Wizard under a True Spirit Wizard, and lose his freedom.
Thus, when he saw Green and recognized Green's value, he made the Face of Truth Phase Six Project the condition of a Destiny Contract. Green received, free of charge, a Biomechanical Microscopic Eye that represented the Wizard World's most advanced technology at the time. Fortress Heart Stigmata Grand Wizard had personally crafted it, and it fit the Face of Truth perfectly.
The contract's condition was that, before Green advanced to become