Green stared blankly at the Mystic Spinning Machine for a full month.
Creak, creak, creak...
Yet no matter how long Green observed it, the Mystic Spinning Machine never displayed any further unusual changes. It merely wove strand after strand of thread into cloth, fed it into the hippopotamus mouth on the other side, and began another cycle.
"Yo-ho-ho, the sun is blocked by clouds, the early worm is eaten by the bird. I am the sun, I am the cloud, I am the worm, I am the bird. While life endures, song never ceases, aiya-yo..."
Outside the ghost-faced Pumpkin Tower, Scarecrow, draped in a white robe, flew over from afar.
To Green and Little Eight's dumbfounded amazement, Scarecrow sprang through the window with a thump and into the room, still singing in that bizarre, offbeat tune of his.
"If you're happy, clap your hands with me, yo-yo. Fool sent me to call you, yo-yo. If you like it, clap your hands with me. If you want to return to the Wizard World, follow me, yo-ho-ho-ho..."
Gulp.
Green and Little Eight, both staring in stunned silence, involuntarily swallowed at the same time.
"Damn it, don't think Baye hasn't seen the world. Baye has roamed the Endless World for who knows how many years and seen not a thousand Overlords, then at least several hundred. You're the first one like this Baye has ever seen."
Little Eight had even forgotten to drink the peach juice he was holding in his wings.
"Master Fool's altar connection has been established?"
Green asked in delighted surprise.
Though he did not know the exact location of the World Cluster where Eternal Moon and Eternal Spring resided, it had to be one step closer to the Wizard World. He had been away from the Wizard World for